Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

“The gas giants must have formed by 4 million years after the formation of the solar system,” Weiss says.

This is like getting a baby picture of our own solar system,' says Gabriel Weible, University of Arizona graduate student who contributed to research - Anadolu Ajansı ...

F or the first time, researchers have dated the formation of Jupiter by studying tiny, bead-like spheres found preserved in ...

How do scientists know how old Earth is? Learn how experts have measured Earth's age, and why it is more difficult to ...

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...