Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, ...

NASA's silence on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has sparked online theories after scientists observed bizarre tail shifts and ...

The newly discovered object 3I/ATLAS (officially designated C/2025 N1) has taken the astronomical community by surprise.

"We study cometary bodies because they act as time capsules, sealing in material from their formation billions of years ago." ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...