Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

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The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

A mysterious comet from beyond our solar system is giving astronomers a rare glimpse into alien worlds — and it may have formed in a place far colder and stranger than anything around our Sun. The ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid contains all of the "letters" that make up DNA, suggesting that these key ingredients for life may be common in the solar system. Researchers made the discovery ...

Planetary science has been shaped by a remarkable legacy of exploration, from the Apollo program to pioneering missions such as Voyager, Cassini-Huygens, Hayabusa, or New Horizons. Today, a new wave ...

Astronomers have discovered two gas giant exoplanets forming in a dusty disk around the young star, WISPIT 2. Credit: ESO / C. Lawlor / R. F. van Capelleveen et al. composite image Astronomers are ...

Flying a helicopter on another planet might sound like pure science fiction, yet space history has already proved otherwise. When NASA’s Perseverance rover thundered to Mars aboard an Atlas V rocket ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...