Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The future of our solar system has long captivated both scientists and stargazers alike. As highlighted in a recent Live ...

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

The sun was born 4.5 billion years ago from a vast cloud of cold hydrogen and dust left behind following the death of more massive stars. At that time, the particles were so far from each other ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery ...