A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

A rare celestial event is set to occur Saturday night, as six planets will line up across the sky, but will we even see them?

A team of scientists from around the world has created the first system that can predict when and where extremely powerful ...

Artist impression of the planetary system with four planets,around a small red star,called LHS1903. Caption: Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

Discover the Kuiper Belt: a frozen ring of dwarf planets and trillions of icy bodies, currently being explored by NASA's New ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation says it will demolish the Sacramento Peak Observatory, also known as Sunspot Solar Observatory ...

Astronomers found a strange planetary system 116 light-years away. It orbits a red dwarf star called LHS 1903. The planets are arranged in an unexpected order. The outermost planet is rocky, which ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.