Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

Four and a half billion years ago, Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the ...

These tiny spheres were formed under extreme conditions during the early solar system's chaotic environment. The study conducted by Japan’s Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...