A new study suggests that a massive structure beyond Jupiter trapped the cosmic dust needed to form the first building blocks ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

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 ...

Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single ...

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker ...