Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary disk might be to blame.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...