Artist's concept showing a very young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. (NASA/JPL) There are many contrasts between ice and fire in both real and fictional worlds – from the volcanoes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have made groundbreaking observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

Although key details are missing from the story of how our Solar System formed, recent discoveries are helping scientists fill in the blanks ...

Planetary scientists have shown that the material that makes up the Earth originates exclusively from the inner solar system. Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed our ...

An image from the ALMA telescope array in Chile shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the young star HOPS-315. The blue jet is moving towards Earth, and the red jet is moving away from us.

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...