Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single ...

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 ...

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory discoveries announced at this week’s AAS 248 include 380 trans-Neptunian objects found in six weeks ...

The solar system’s history is steeped in mystery, with suggestions of ancient chaos possibly casting out enormous planets. Uranus's rugged moons are now seen as vital artifacts that could unravel this ...

The entire solar disk in unprecedented detail—this is shown by images of the visible surface of the sun, which researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have now created from ...