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 ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

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 ...

NASA has done it again, and just achieved something truly out of this world – and almost out of this solar system. That’s because its Parker Solar Probe has just managed to “vacuum up” space dust ...

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Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able ...

When most of us learn about the solar system, it seems like a pretty well-ordered place. Our sun formed first, about five billion years ago, and the planets appeared a little later. As a very general ...