A team of scientists have unveiled a breakthrough in the field of renewable energy materials. They have developed a ...

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

Still, the implications are profound. Ceres is far from alone in the solar system. Dozens of small, icy bodies — dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids — could have had similar histories.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent ...

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have looked like billions of years ago.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

Experts say that the discovery could help better understand the beginnings of our own Solar System.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

"Something Extraordinary Occurred": A New 380-Kilometer World Has Been Found In Our Solar System Welcome to the neighborhood, Ammonite.