We’re watching something we’ve never seen before,” Dave Roberts said. Here are seven reasons this was the single greatest ...
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...
The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...
Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...
If Earth were ejected from the Solar System — by a passing star or planetary collision — daylight would vanish in days. The ...
Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...
Two comets, C/2025 A4 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are about to reach their closest approach to Earth and you can watch the ...
Scientists have recently proposed the existence of “Planet Y,” a hidden Earth-sized world that could be lurking in our solar ...
The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...
Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...