Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

These advances demonstrated that solar models were not to blame for the origin of this phenomenon ... as the Sun remains the only stable nuclear fusion reactor in our solar system. Improving our ...