Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

A nearby star has just been caught throwing a tantrum – and it could rewrite what we know about the potential for life in the ...

We see them as bright dots in the sky, but what lies beneath the clouds and craters? In this SpaceBalls episode, we're ...

At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...