About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Damanveer Singh Grewal suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study ...

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

After decades of exploring, NASA's Voyager 1 hit the edge of the solar system and passed through a great "wall of fire," ...

For generations, we’ve repeated the same facts about our Solar System — but many of them are wrong. This film uncovers the biggest misconceptions science has already corrected.

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...