Scientists have long puzzled over how our solar system’s planets formed, because this isn’t a process they can watch unfold. Researchers have generally thought that Jupiter and Saturn grew out of ...

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

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists are baffled by the suspicious behaviour of mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system ...

Astronomers have observed a solar system being formed for the first time, as hot gas condenses into solid minerals around the baby star (Picture: ESO) Astronomers have witnessed the creation of a ...

Scientists have been left puzzled after spotting that the mysterious interstellar object in our Solar System is 'bleeding' ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.