Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Watch footage of the Sun unleashing an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two ...

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.

Astronomers have said they observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing ...

Astronomers recently spotted an interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, on an unusual trajectory, sparking speculation about its origin and nature.