Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation.

It is the fastest wind ever measured in a jetstream that goes around a planet. In comparison, the fastest wind ever measured in the Solar System was found on Neptune, moving at 'only' 0.5 km per ...

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...

Enaiposha orbits a red dwarf star 47 light years away from our own Earth, upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the ...