A new TV documentary is a tender tribute to Voyagers 1 and 2, which launched 40 years ago and were the first spacecraft to visit the outer solar system.

Found: A Watery Solar System Being Born — and Clues to Earth’s Creation 4 minute read Jeffrey Kluger October 25, 2011 12:00 AM EDT ...

The creation of our own solar system was a violent process. As planets were forming some crashed into each other, disturbing orbits and leaving us with giants like Jupiter and Saturn alongside ...

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Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

The newborn planetary system is emerging around Hops-315, a baby star around 1,300 light-years away. In a first, astronomers have observed the very early stages of the creation of a new solar ...