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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

The superclouds probably produce star-forming clouds of gas, since most nearby stellar nurseries are located within the giants.

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

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

Selling a home with a financed solar system doesn’t have to be complicated. The process can run smoothly – as long as the ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Credit: alexandarilich/Getty Images Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's just a blip in the 13.8 billion-year story of the universe. And one ...

It is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

But this definition of the solar system is considered to be far too simple by some astronomers, such as Caltech's Mike Brown. "It's not really true," Brown told Live Science in an email.