Earth is the only body in the solar system that currently exhibits plate tectonics, whose movements explain this surface crack along the San Andreas Fault. (Image credit: Bob Rowan via Getty Images) ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Scientists used thousands of orbital simulations to explore what would happen if a nearby star passed a little too close to our solar system.

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing within 10,000 AU might destabilize Mercury's orbit, potentially affecting ...

If an Earth-like planet awaits beyond Neptune, it promises to open a new chapter in planetary science. Note: Materials provided above by The Brighter Side of News . Content may be edited for style ...

Beyond our solar system: scientists identify a new exoplanet candidate. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250304212337.htm ...

The findings confirm that helium could stay locked in Earth's solid inner core for a long time, Olson told Live Science, but he cautioned that only 4% of the core is solid.

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in ...

Our solar system consists of four small, rocky, inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four large, gaseous, outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).

In the 2010s, aurora on Uranus helped scientists make discoveries about the planet, which is more than 1.6 billion miles away from Earth. More in Science The 'king of poisons' is building up in rice ...

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have discovered a new planet in our solar system.

When the Solar System was forming from a molecular cloud around 4.5 billion years ago, temperatures in the inner region were too high for volatile chemicals such as water to condense.

The Sun accounts for some 99.86% of the mass in our Solar System; of the remaining fraction of a percent, fully two-thirds is embodied in Jupiter, which itself contains more than 70% of the total ...