Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger.

India could cut electricity costs to about $50/MWh by 2050 by transitioning to a fully wind- and solar-powered system with primarily day-night balancing, according to new modeling that includes ...

Astronomers Discover ‘Ammonite,’ a Mysterious Distant Object That Could Shed Light on Our Solar System’s History The celestial body’s unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary ...

Some of these flecks are even older than the Solar System itself—the presolar grains in the Murchison meteorite, for instance, go back 7 billion years.

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system.

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. The star is surrounded by a ...

And one day, the solar system will cease to exist. But when will the solar system end? And how will it die out? The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.

For the First Time, Astronomers Capture ‘Smoking Gun’ of Early Solar System Formation Telescopes detected the first stages of hot minerals condensing from gas around a young star called HOPS-315 ...

Astronomers witness dawn of new solar system for 1st time Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star.

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.