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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.