Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of rock samples collected from the NEO by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe between 2018 ...

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 ...

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

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New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

WISPIT 2b was detected as part of a five-year observational research project during which the international team sought to establish whether wide orbit gas giant planets were more common around ...