The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

The future of our solar system has long captivated both scientists and stargazers alike. As highlighted in a recent Live ...

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

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

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

The sun was born 4.5 billion years ago from a vast cloud of cold hydrogen and dust left behind following the death of more massive stars. At that time, the particles were so far from each other ...