From meteor showers to visible nebulas, August is primed to be an action-packed month for stargazers in the United States. ...

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

(AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system ... s a rich ...

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

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The sun is unique in that it's the only star in our solar system. Up to 85% of stars have at least one companion star. The sun contains over 99% of the mass of our entire solar system.

I n 300 years, NASA's Voyager spacecraft will reach a hypothetical region of space, long thought to exist but for which we do ...