A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

An out-of-this-world encounter has touched down at the Discovery Cube Orange County. The children’s learning museum in Santa Ana opened its new Solar System Encounter on Saturday, an immersive look at ...