19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system ... forged in the earliest days of our cosmic neighborhood.

Suppose a map of these United States were drawn on ... and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly ...

Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the ... and potentially shedding light on the origins of our own Solar System," says David Cont from the Ludwig Maximilian ...

“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission ...

These grains, including micro-diamonds and silicon carbide, date back over 4.6 billion years, predating our solar system. This makes the Murchison meteorite a window into the universe’s earliest ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade ... Read more This mind-blowing map shows Earth’s position within the vast universe Never is this more apparent than during a ...

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself with a star surrounded by a flat disc of planetary material orbiting in ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. THE question of the origin of the solar system is ...

One theory is that our Sun’s formation was initiated by ... led to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar ...