Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

So how old is our planet, and how do we even know its age? Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago, about 10 million years after the solar system was born. After a gigantic cloud of gas ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...