Recent observations of the outer Solar System using the Subaru Telescope have uncovered objects where none were expected, ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was transformed into our Sun. The processes that followed gave rise to the solar ... Many of the asteroids in the solar system melted early on in their ...

And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock likely came from. According to research headed by Mario ...

He began to suspect that our solar system’s history had been anything but smooth—that it had somehow endured a “global gravitational instability,” as he now calls it. In 2004 he gathered ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave ...

Horizon: Secrets of the Solar System New planets are now being discovered outside our Solar System on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved from a monstrosity of gas and dust into the protosolar ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

How long is a day on the Moon? How wide are Saturn's rings? Find out with this visual tour through our solar system's most fascinating features. In contrast, the planets furthest from our sun - ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

“The current study shows how crucial laboratory investigations can be in deciphering the formation history of our Solar System,” says Thorsten Kleine, Director of the Department of Planetary Sciences ...

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...