Imagine a journey where you could travel through the entire Solar System at the speed of light. In this video, we explore the ...

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

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into what our Solar System may have looked like at birth. It’s a stunning replay ...

Dark comets have been moving through our Solar System for billions of years. And somehow, until recently, we had no idea. How ...

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

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

Of all the aurorae in the solar system, none are more powerful than Jupiter’s. The gas giant’s massive size and fast rotation produce a magnetosphere some 20,000 times as powerful as Earth’s.

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

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...