THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source of speculation for over a hundred years; but, in spite of the attention that has been devoted to it, no really ...

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

Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...

Researchers used observations from the Webb Telescope to identify carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...

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

Billions of years ago, a star may have passed incredibly close to our Solar System, triggering a series of cosmic events that ...

Chinese scientists have made a groundbreaking analysis of the first lunar farside samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission, ...

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially shedding light on its origins.

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

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Researchers used observations from the Webb Telescope to identify carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...