When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...
New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...
Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner Solar System; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter’s orbit. A group of ...
Meteorites, known as messengers of the Solar System, are critical objects for studying the formation and evolution of planets ...
Generations of scientists have tried to explain how the solar system began. None of the explanations is wholly adequate. The trouble is that the solar system is not a haphazard collection of planets ...
Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud ...
About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.
The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...
Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...