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

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 ...

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

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Research analyzing molybdenum isotopes in meteorites and Earth rocks shows our planet received its water later than ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics ... clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

often leading to the formation of new minerals. Protosolar nebula: The cloud of gas and dust from which the solar system formed, containing the building blocks of planets and other celestial bodies.

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...