Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

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 ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

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.

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

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Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...