A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

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"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's planets formed.

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar system's formation and early evolution.

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from Seoul National University and other international institutions have been able to answer a question that has puzzled scientists for years about ...

Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

The findings, detailed in papers posted on arXiv, mark a rare scientific achievement for an object that formed around a star ...