The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

A newborn planetary system is forming around HOPS-315, a protostar (one that recently formed) that sits some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This star isn't in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming long-held theories about how young planets shape their star systems.

An international team of astronomers has made a landmark discovery by capturing an image of a giant planet forming within a ...

In the solar system that probably will form around this young star, the innermost planets will orbit in one direction and the outer planets will orbit in the opposite direction.

A nearby star-forming region may explain the mystery of tiny grains from beyond the solar system.

Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star.

Researchers have laid out a new, comprehensive theory for how the solar system formed — inside the bubble of a long-dead, giant star.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

Based on isotope analysis of meteorites, a team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has determined that about 4.5 billion years ago, our solar system may have formed ...