If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University ...

Jupiter’s early growth carved rings in the solar system, delayed meteorite formation, and kept planets like Earth in stable ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

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 ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict," said Böhme, per ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...