An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but ...

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Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...