The early solar system is still a bit of a mystery to scientists, but the secret to learning Jupiter's origins might be ...

A recent study has sparked intrigue by suggesting the existence of a mysterious object from beyond our solar system behaving ...

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

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 ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

The Sun's formation caused temperature differences in the surrounding disk of gas and dust. Inner, hotter regions formed rocky planets from less volatile elements. Outer, colder regions allowed ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system.

The research team at the University of Tokyo recently announced that based on the analysis of samples brought back from the Ryugu asteroid by the Hayabusa2 probe, they found that this near-Earth ...