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

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

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

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

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Plasma ejections from young stars may offer valuable insights into the Sun’s early history. Most of the time, we hardly notice it from Earth, but the Sun is constantly hurling vast clouds of charged ...