Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star — giving us an unprecedented, real-time look at how our solar system would've formed some ...

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

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic ...

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

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” – ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.