"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

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

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

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

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

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

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

The object was found in a region so far on the solar system's outskirts that gravity from Neptune, the planet farthest away from the sun in our solar system, has little influence on it, Fumi Yoshida, ...

We’ve never known why sunspots can last on our star’s surface for as long as they do, but we finally cracked the case.