Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying long-standing theories of planet formation. The finding hints that some ...

Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the University of Rochester has detected gaps ringing the dusty disks around two very young stars, which suggests that gas-giant ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...