There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

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

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

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

Astronomers have hoped for the existence of Planet Nine for years. Things were looking promising, but this discovery might ...

WAYNESVILLE, Ohio (WKRC) — A 14-year-old Eagle Scout with a passion for astronomy has completed a remarkable project at Hisey ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

Researchers just got a step closer to understanding the origins of our solar system, with the discovery of an object orbiting ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

An international research team has witnessed the earliest moments to date of planets beginning to form around a star beyond ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...