Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

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

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...

These tiny spheres were formed under extreme conditions during the early solar system's chaotic environment. The study conducted by Japan’s Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

Jupiter has a new birthday, and its age has been accurately determined thanks to ancient cosmic raindrops. These raindrops, known as chondrules, have provided scientists with a groundbreaking method ...

Arrokoth is a planetesimal in the Kuiper Belt, a vast stretch of space beyond Neptune that holds remnant building blocks of the solar system leftover from our cosmic neighborhood's formation.

Astronomers See Planet Formation ‘Time Zero’ in an Alien Solar System Observations of a baby star may show the earliest stages of planet formation that astronomers have ever seen ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope studied interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Observations showed high carbon dioxide levels in the ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.