The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Furthermore, the research indicates that Ryugu's parent body formed relatively early in the solar system's history, approximately 2 million years after the formation of the first solids.

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...