The Sun is a powerful, awe-inspiring force at the center of our solar system. Its brilliance lights up our sky and sustains ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, ...

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 ...