And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

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

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

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

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 ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

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 ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.