When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically had a choice between two ingredients: heat-forged chondrules, which were ...

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

For the first time, scientists combined the power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes in search of far-flung bodies deep in our solar system.

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

The number of rocky extrasolar planets being discovered continues to increase, but so too does the apparent diversity of such worlds.

Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems, calling into ...