New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

NASA Scientists discover a fast-moving star and planetary system moving double our solar system speed through the Milky Way.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative ... in the earliest days of our cosmic neighborhood.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

February will be an awe-inspiring month for astronomy enthusiasts who will be able to the see the solar system's planets ...

People will be able to see a rare sight at the end of this month when all seven other planets in our solar system line up in the night sky. For the last few weeks six of the planets have been ...