Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

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

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

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

The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...