Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

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

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System ... 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian ...

Furthermore, the research indicates that Ryugu's parent body formed relatively early in the solar system's history, approximately 2 million years after the formation of the first solids.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.