The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

The research shows the asteroid likely is made of compounds that came from different parts of the proto-planetary disk that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something about the interstellar comet that's never been observed before, ...

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity ...

To unravel the mystery of Jupiter's birth, scientists turned their attention to meteorites. These cosmic 'messengers' carry a ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...