English physicist and science communicator Brian Cox shared his thoughts on the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS found the ...
An interstellar visitor to our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS has captivated the public for months, and it's not hard to see why. But for scientists around the world, the discovery that 3I/ATLAS is ...
Jupiter's influence didn't stop there. Gravitational resonances, areas in space where the orbital periods of asteroids create regular interactions with Jupiter, Saturn, and even Mars, destabilise ...
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed—Earth's solar system and its planets looked more ...
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...
This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter tend to follow similar orbits around the sun, allowing ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...