New simulations from Rice University reveal how Jupiter’s rapid early growth blocked gas and dust from reaching the Sun, ...

Jupiter influenced Earth’s future long before Earth formed, slicing gaps in the early solar system to stop its raw materials ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

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

When the solar system was first organizing itself, a disk of gas and dust took shape around the sun's central mass. It eventually sorted itself into the system of planets we see today. But there are ...

In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...

A wealth of new information about Earth’s inner core has surfaced in recent months. Scientists now have evidence that the planet’s innermost layer is changing shape. Scientists who just months ago ...

Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet ...

Six planets planets visible during the eclipse With Earth and the Moon currently on one side of the solar system and the rest of the solar system current on the other side, each of the six naked-eye ...

Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...