Somewhere beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is bent. Not by much, and not in a way any known planet can account for. A study ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

The nebular hypothesis states that stars and the planets that orbit them form from the same reservoir of material, called a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration showing Planet Nine, a hypothetical, undiscovered planet in our solar system. New research now suggests the ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression shows the "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903. - ESA An exoplanetary system about 116 ...

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

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 ...

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general idea saw our planet forming from a mixture of local planetesimals – the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The solar system suddenly has a new member. A new object ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...