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

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

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Discover the immense power and influence of Jupiter's gravity on our solar system and the role it plays in shaping our ...

Learn about the chemical signature that may be the first evidence to come from proto Earth, the unruly first phrase of our ...

The Sun, a G2V main-sequence star approximately 4.6 billion years old, is currently undergoing hydrogen fusion. Stellar evolution, primarily determined by a star's mass, dictates that the Sun will ...

Scientists have uncovered the hidden core of one of our galaxy’s most spectacular phenomena, giving scientists a rare chance to see what may one day happen to our own sun. The James Webb Space ...

Explore 10 breathtaking images of pink nebulae and supernovae captured by NASA, showcasing the beauty, mystery, and explosive ...

When NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft delivered its sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, scientists opened an ancient time capsule. Inside it were grains of dust and rock older than our solar ...