Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Click to enjoy a journey across our spacious solar system courtesy of Josh Worth. How do you picture the solar system? Most of us imagine the eight planets as colorful balls of varying sizes moving in ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

An interstellar visitor may have warped the solar system billions of years ago, a new study has claimed. Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...