"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.