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

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

A recent study by Princeton University astronomers suggests the possible existence of a previously undetected planet in our ...

The April 2024 total solar eclipse caused some birds to believe that a new day had arrived, prompting them to burst into song, a new study found.

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it challenges everything we know about how the solar system formed.

Our Solar System hides worlds of fire and ice, storms that outlast civilizations, and mysteries still beyond human reach.

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

An interstellar visitor is speeding through the solar system, and within weeks, astronomers hope to learn whether it's a natural wanderer or something far more extraordinary. The ...