IF summer holiday boredom is setting in, the answer could be written in the stars. Astronomy is growing in popularity across the UK, with retailer Argos reporting sales of telescopes and ...

Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that's captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in uprecedented detail.

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, researchers say.

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming around a baby sun-like star, providing a peek into the dawn of our own solar system.