ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The most detailed measurements to date of the dusty disks around young stars confirm a new theory that the region where rocky planets such as Earth form is much farther away from the ...

An international team of astronomers announced Wednesday that it had discovered a blinking star -- one that gets periodically eclipsed by dust, rocks, and other building blocks of planets. Because the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Comets and meteorites contain clues to our solar system’s earliest days. But some of the findings are puzzle pieces that don’t seem to fit well together. A new set of theoretical models from ...