Astronomers have confirmed a new planet in one of the youngest solar systems ever found, thanks to University of Arizona ...
The WISPIT 2 system is the second known planetary system, following PDS 70, where exoplanets have been observed forming ...
The scene around WISPIT 2 is messy in a way that matters. Rings of dust circle the young star, gaps cut through the disc, and ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...
Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...
Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...