Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

Jupiter’s early growth carved rings in the solar system, delayed meteorite formation, and kept planets like Earth in stable ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...

Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict," said Böhme, per ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...

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Jessica Barnes examines a vial containing sample particles at the Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, located at the University of Arizona. Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's ...

Astronomers have intensively studied 3I/ATLAS since it was first detected. "This is a comet that formed in another solar system, most likely more than eight billion years ago - which means it is older ...

WASHINGTON: Nasa is set to release new images of an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system.