“It’s violent. Our solar system is probably on the mild side compared with what happens elsewhere. You probably need that mildness in order to have a habitable planet.” The Nice model is a ...

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

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

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be ... we now have a good understanding of our Solar System. From the one with the ears, to the 11 year old girl that ...

Maddie Moate:Oh that looks like fun. Can you remember the right order of theplanets? Our solar system is huge and it's just one of nearlynearly 4000 star systems in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Related: Solar system planets, order and formation ... belts and gaps in the region beyond where the Kuiper Belt is in our ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that helped create ...