Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

F or the first time, researchers have dated the formation of Jupiter by studying tiny, bead-like spheres found preserved in ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as ...

Our solar system formed from a dense cloud of gas and dust that collapsed into a swirling disk of matter, most of which gravitated to the disk's center — which would eventually become the sun ...

The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist.

According to their calculations, about 3.8 millions years after the first solid materials in our solar system formed, Jupiter was twice as large as it is now.