"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

A team of Indian astronomers has uncovered a groundbreaking discovery about how planets might form in multi-star systems. Led by Liton Majumdar from the National Institute of Science Education and ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...