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International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

For decades, astronomers believed our Solar System was a typical model of how planetary systems should form. But recent ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

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Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...