A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of researchers has ...

In an article published in the journal Icarus, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and collaborators report the findings of a study reconstituting the formation of the dwarf planet Ceres ...

An artist's impression shows the "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903. - ESA An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Ganymede is not only Jupiter's largest moon, but also the largest in our solar system and one of the few that hosts a massive ...