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

When planetary rings are mentioned, the image of Saturn immediately comes to mind. However, this celestial feature is not ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 presence and abundance of the short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs) 26Al and 60Fe during the formation of the Solar System is difficult to explain unless the Sun formed in the vicinity of one or more ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

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

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