Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in Florida and ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

The universe is vast, and while our solar system is the center of our everyday lives, it is just a tiny part of the cosmic expanse. Beyond our Sun lies a collection of stars that are our closest ...

The superclouds probably produce star-forming clouds of gas, since most nearby stellar nurseries are located within the giants.

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

When planetary scientists look to other stars for planets beyond Earth, they don’t often turn up much that resembles our solar system. Whether it’s because of star size, detection method, or ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

More information: Nathan A. Kaib et al, The influence of passing field stars on the solar system's dynamical future, Icarus (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116632 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts ...