How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

Earth' 5-7 times Earth's mass might lurk in the Kuiper Belt, reshaping our solar system. Planet Nine could explain mysterious ...

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

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...