Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

and these materials combined together to form the inner planets. The outer four planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are called gas giants. When the solar system formed, gaseous ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when ... 2 spacecraft in 1977 on a "Grand Tour" of the outer Solar System. Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 ...

Clear skies will also be necessary to see all the planets. The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed and distance. During these ...

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...