Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from looking at dips in starlight as these planets pass in front of their host star. This technique can ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

One theory is that our Sun’s formation was initiated by ... led to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar ...

As more data is gathered, it will not only provide clearer answers to the forces that shaped our solar system, but also enhance our understanding of the formation, composition, and evolutionary ...