The Subaru telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawai'i has found a new world within our Solar System, dubbed "Ammonite" by the team who found it. In 2003, NASA-funded researchers ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...

Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar System In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what ...

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have looked like billions of years ago.

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun. Analysis of an ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

The solar system is filled with unexplained anomalies that even the brightest scientific minds struggle to explain. From strange planetary orbits to the peculiar behavior of distant moons, the ...

Observations of a young star offer a glimpse of the high-temperature conditions that shaped rock formation in the early Solar System.