The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

As Voyager 1 pushes beyond Pluto, it reveals a shocking truth,the solar system is far vaster and more mysterious than we ever ...