A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...