In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...

Almost everything you could want to know about the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. Real HD photos and videos taken by the ...

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

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours," Balmer added. "From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system ...

Key Takeaways The Webb Telescope captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet. The findings suggest planets in a system 130 light-years away likely built up solid cores before ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky. (Credit: WSET) You'll need a telescope for some of them, but you should be able to find ...

Hunting for exoplanets An exoplanet is any planet outside of our own solar system. Like the planets in our solar system orbit the sun, most exoplanets also orbit a star.

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago.

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been ...