A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...
About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.
The timing of Earth's early formation points to a planet that started out dry. So, life’s essential building blocks arrived ...
Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...
The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...
Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...
Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...
For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...
Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved ...
I/ATLAS, the third interstellar visitor to the Solar System, got the entire scientific community talking after initial ...