Earth is far from the only celestial body in the Solar System.

A research team has confirmed evidence of a previously unknown planet outside of our solar system, and they used machine learning tools to detect it. A recent study by the team showed that machine ...

Our solar system just got another guest from the galaxy. Find out how scientists spotted this third interstellar object, what ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets. The system, 100 light years away, has six planets, ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It's an unprecedented ...

Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form. These massive stars, located ...