Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

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

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.

What are the key learning points about the Solar System? The structure of the Solar System. The order of the planets. Natural and artificial satellites close satelliteBody that orbits a planet.

An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a ...