Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

How do you picture the solar system? Most of us imagine the eight planets as colorful balls of varying sizes moving in orbits that comfortably fit within the confines of our computer screens. But ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our knowledge of the solar system's "small bodies"—asteroids, comets and other minor planets.

Prevailing solar system formation theories indicate that these planets should have at least started out following perfectly circular and share the same orbit.

A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter's remarkable ...

The action is unfolding in a location comparable to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter containing the leftover building blocks of our solar system’s planets.

HOPS-315 is also giving astronomers a new opportunity to study early planet formation, serving as a stand-in for newborn solar systems across the galaxy.

Astronomers have witnessed the early formation of a solar system for the first time.

The components of meteorites enriched in radioactive isotopes formed in approximately the first 100,000 years of Solar System formation inside the dense filament.