Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system, representing a major step forward ...

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have found seven exoplanets, potentially harbouring magnetic fields, similar to Earth ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called ...

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed. The post Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve. Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of ...

Discovery: On July 2, 2025, astronomers confirmed Comet 3I/ATLAS, marking only the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected passing through our Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and ...

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If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.