Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...