Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...
Comet C/2025 V1 (Borisov), discovered by an amateur astronomer, is captivating scientists. Its unusual orbit initially ...
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...
To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...
Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 mission returned uncontaminated primitive asteroid samples to Earth. A comprehensive analysis of 16 particles from the asteroid Ryugu revealed many ...