Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

and they have very long orbits which means they are found further out in our solar system.” Given this distance and their pattern of movement, it’s easy to see how the mistake was made.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...