About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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.

The process of planet formation has long been a mystery to astronomers, and despite years of theoretical research, capturing the birth of a planet has proven elusive. However, a new breakthrough has ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

Washington DC — New theoretical work shows that gas-giant planet formation can occur around binary stars in much the same way that it occurs around single stars like the Sun. The work is presented ...

What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...

Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...