Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

In a cosmic first, McClure and her team stared deep into the gas disk around the baby star and detected solid specks ...

Join game direction, game design & artist Céline Veltman for a behind-the-scenes look at Curiosmos in this video for this upcoming cozy space sim, where you build your own solar system by crafting ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own ...

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

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, researchers say.

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of ...