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

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

When the solar system formed, rocks (and other dense, heavy materials in the dust cloud such as iron and uranium) tended to gather closer to the Sun, and these materials combined together to form ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has ...

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

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

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

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.

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.

who added that theories of solar system and planet formation would also need revision. The theory is testable. If astronomers can find a cluster of TNOs at about 150 Earth-sun distances then they ...

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 ...