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 ...

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 new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

Cape Canaveral: 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 . It’s ...

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 ...

Astronomers have photographed for the first time a growing planet embedded in a dark gap of a dusty, multi-ringed disk around a young star -- offering rare evidence of how giant planets form. “Dozens ...

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A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...