We all picture the Solar System as a neat cosmic racetrack with planets orbiting the Sun on a flat, organized path. But have ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from ...

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

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