There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Jupiter, the colossal planet at the heart of our solar system, has long been a subject of intrigue. Recent research from Rice ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because they formed from a single rotating disk of gas and dust — the solar nebula — that flattened as it spun around the young Sun. The shared origin ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike ...