The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

Recent observations of the outer Solar System using the Subaru Telescope have uncovered objects where none were expected, hinting at the possibility of a larger and more complex structure in our ...

Outside our own solar system, the first moments of planet formation have never been detected, until now.

Astronomers witness dawn of new solar system for 1st time Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star.

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being.