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

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

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

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

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

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

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

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune.