Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labelled as Planet X, prominent astronomers ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...