"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told Newsweek.

An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail — view our solar system and deep space ... Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and ...

As part of the event, kids were invited to share something that they like about their home planet. This is what ... understanding of Earth as a system, collect new observations, develop new ...

Circinus West is a cold, dense cloud of gas and dust that stretches out for 180 light-years, around 60 times the size of our solar system ... have nothing to do with planets).

We know it's not likely to look like our own Solar System, given that our familiar planets don't include entire classes of planets (Hot Jupiters! Mini-Neptunes!) that we've found elsewhere.

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

Its stunning imagery inspired people across the globe, and the data behind those images revealed surprises about everything from early galaxies to planets in our own solar system," Shawn Domagal ...

Our solar system consists of four small, rocky, inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four large, gaseous, outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

but it does give us an accurate 3D view of our solar system. Your view of this event is determined by your location on planet Earth — think Northern or Southern Hemisphere, or even the equator ...