Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

We have developed a state-of-the-art atmospheric climate-biogeochemical model for terrestrial planets ... We are developing a holistic modelling approach for different planets and exoplanets that ...

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...

Understanding how the habitability of our solar system's inner planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—would change had there been a super-Earth opposite Mars can help guide astrobiologists ...

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have ... circular orbit of Earth. Detecting these planets ...

and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” If that wasn’t enough, another team—led by meteorite ...