“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 Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...

The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is 11 times wider than Earth, and has a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the ...

When: Colerain Township Board of Supervisors meeting, July 14. What happened: The board voted to enact a zoning ordinance ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

Following a March 21 hearing on Staten Island, arbitrator Joseph J. Maltese ruled against ATTYX LLC, and its affiliated ...

Can you drink Saturn’s rings? Saturn’s rings were likely first seen by Galileo in 1610. The speed at which an object orbits a ...