Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth of a new solar system.

Led by Purdue University assistant professor Cauê Borlina during his time at MIT, alongside senior author Benjamin Weiss, the ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

It's an exciting time for the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Thanks to cutting-edge observatories, instruments, and new techniques, scientists are getting closer to experimentally ...

Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary systems on its head. Scientists have discovered an alien solar system ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system. Using a combination of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...

Before Earth existed — before the Sun ignited — ancient stars lived out their full lives, forged their elements, and died. A study published July 29 in Science Advances now shows that some of their ...