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 ...

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 ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

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 answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

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 ...

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