"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42) -- our solar system came from that direction!" The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured detailed images of Lynds 483 (L483), a star-forming region located 650 ...

The findings, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics ( "The Solar System’s Passage through the Radcliffe Wave during the ...

Primordial helium from the beginning of the solar system may be stuck inside Earth's solid core, new research suggests. The findings could have implications for a long-standing debate about how ...

“This region is easily visible in the winter sky in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Look for ...