About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. Astronomers are using the data to study the ...

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

Recent research indicates Mercury is shrinking, with its radius decreasing by 2.7 to 5.6 kilometers due to core cooling. This contraction forms thrust faults and scarps on the surface. A new ...