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

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

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 celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

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Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

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

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

SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...

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