How did the first solids that made up planets, moons and asteroids form from the "hot soup" that characterized our solar ...

Pre-solar grains solar system formation: Caltech researchers confirm that stardust from ancient stars survived extreme ...

Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of Cincinnati graduate student the kind of first look astronomers wait years for.

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

These images, taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows a planetary system being born around the young star WISPIT 2. The star is surrounded by a disc of gas and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...