The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The future of our solar system has long captivated both scientists and stargazers alike. As highlighted in a recent Live ...

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

The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

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

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a global network of four ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

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