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 ...
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...
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 ...
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 ...
A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...
Brown, Rein and Malhotra think that sometime during the Solar System’s formation, an uninvited guest anywhere between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter barged in fast enough to both shift the disk’s ...
A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...