EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University’s Seth Jacobson and colleagues in China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar system evolved.

Astronomers and geologists have several techniques for dating Earth, and, therefore, the age of the solar system. From the radiometric dating of rocks, which measures the known decay rates of ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

A team using the LOFAR radio telescope network made this claim. They combined LOFAR data with two other sensitive radio ...

Conventional solar panels cannot completely utilise sunlight throughout the day since they are stuck in one location. For ...

Which solar system model is best? For as long as humans could look up at the night sky, we’ve been fascinated with the stars. How far away are they? Where did they come from? What secrets do they hide ...

The solar system is difficult to show correctly. Why? It is difficult because the size of things are vastly different. Let me use units common in solar-system astronomy, the Astronomical Unit (or AU).

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Just in time for the total solar eclipse next April, Arkansas State University is announcing the installation of the Voyage Model Solar System on the ...

Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Banner image: A glass block marks Saturn's spot in the solar system in a new scale model on the CU Boulder campus. (Credit: CU Boulder) Have you ever wanted to travel to Neptune? Thanks to an updated ...

If you had a few billion dollars and some of the most talented space scientists and engineers in the world, where would you go? There's no wrong answer, really. Even if you narrow it down to just the ...