Even distant orbits may not make it across the one billion-year mark after the Sun collapses into a white dwarf.

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...

When yellow dwarf stars like our sun die, they swell to an enormous size and destroy their inner planets by either crushing ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

According to a new study, the Solar System may break apart within about 6 billion years as the dying Sun’s uneven mass loss destabilizes the outer planets.

Tiny bits of rock recorded magnetic forces in the early solar system before the sun fully formed. Scientists recently figured ...

Asteroid Bennu's chemical fingerprint is revealing new clues about where it formed and the surprising role Jupiter played in ...

The early stages of planet formation in the Solar System reveal a surprising selectivity in the materials that contributed to the creation of planets and ...

In the early history of our solar system, scientists theorize that a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, vaporizing massive amounts of rock and blasting it into space. Some ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

Caltech researchers reveal solar mass loss during red giant phase triggers outer solar system instability via stochastic ...