Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

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Why do all the planets orbit in nearly the same plane? This episode explores the birth of the solar system from a collapsing ...

For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 ...

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...