WASHINGTON - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only three million years to ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

Ever since Pluto was demoted from planet status, astronomers believe a real Planet Nine exists in the solar system ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Astronomers have spotted, orbiting around a young star, a newborn planet that took only three million years to form – quite swift in cosmic terms – in a discovery that challenges the current ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...