The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

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

It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according to a new study. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory were ...

This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.