A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar ...

The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

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

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star, giving us an ...