Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been traveling through the vast reaches of space, sending back groundbreaking data about ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft is being prepped for a 2025 launch to study the solar system’s outer boundary and solar wind from its ...

Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...