A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic evolution of the ancient solar nebula materials. These materials interacted and coevolved with the weak but widespread ...

From Pluto’s tilted orbit to rogue asteroids, discover the chaotic leftovers of solar system formation. This video explains NASA’s DART mission, why some planetary orbits defy predictability, and ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...