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

Back to Article List Astronomers see a new solar system forming for the first time Planets are being created in the disk of material surrounding a baby star in Orion.

Scientists have captured the birth of a new solar system for the very first time. These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from ...

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

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

All eight of the solar system’s “major” planets appear in this illustration, but the actual number of planetary bodies orbiting our star is far greater.

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin ...

Are tiny black holes zipping through our solar system? Scientists hope to find out Scientists have studied black holes with the mass of a star for decades.

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...