The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

We’ve never known why sunspots can last on our star’s surface for as long as they do, but we finally cracked the case.

SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...

Despite being the brightest and largest thing around, the Sun still holds quite a few mysteries for scientists. One of those includes its “heartbeat”, periodic signals released by our Solar System’s ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...

It's not every day we get this close to the heart of our solar system and live to talk about it. But NASA just did something extraordinary. Its Parker Solar Probe has flown closer ...