A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has captured the birth of a star in the Herbig-Haro 30 system. The image offers a look into ...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation ...

things that look nothing like our own solar system. "Every time we think we really understand planet formation, we learn something new. And this is going to just keep happening over the next ...