Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

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 NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

The early solar system is still a bit of a mystery to scientists, but the secret to learning Jupiter's origins might be ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...