"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

Scientists are following a trail of interstellar dust all the way back to the formation of the solar system. What we now know as the solar system began as a cloud of interstellar dust and gas. By ...

Solar wind can form water on interplanetary dust, potentially adding to the primordial soup that gave rise to life on Earth, scientists say. The creation of water via the solar wind could help ...

Dust from the Sahara is threatening Europe’s solar energy plans by blocking sunlight and confusing prediction models. As ...

The gas and dust that surrounds the solar system probably hasn’t changed too much in the 4.6 billion years since the sun and planets formed, he says. Science News sponsorship position.

The dust consists of crushed-up remains from the formation of the solar system, some 4.6 billion years ago -- rubble from asteroid collisions or crumbs from blazing comets.

For the first time, scientists have found rings of dust around planet-bearing stars -- an important confirmation of theories about how planets form, NASA announced Thursday.

The Parker Solar Probe wasn’t made to study dust. But, to get close to the sun and study the solar wind, it “plows right through the densest part of the zodiacal cloud,” Malaspina says.

Because of this, the researchers think that this dust, and its parent comet, couldn't have come from the hot, inner solar nebula. Astrophotographer Chris Chur captured this view of comet C/2016 R2 ...