Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have ...

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

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Why are they in a line? It's because the solar system is flat. I know, last week I outlined two experiments you can do to prove that the Earth is not flat.But the solar system really is flat. All ...

This solar system is unique because all six planets move similar to a perfectly synchronized symphony, scientists said. In technical terms, it's known as resonance that's "precise, ...

Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.