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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail — the closest-ever images of our ...