CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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.

In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star far outside our solar system. View on euronews ...

Researchers from Caltech Catch Dwarf Planets Helping Space 'Vampire' For a long time, astronomers have known that over the years, dead stars, often called “cosmic vampires,” strip away plasma from ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was previously thought empty.