The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 12264 might cause changes to the timeline of planet formation, affecting the knowledge ...

Scientists have thought that our solar system's inner rocky planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars —formed first (around 4.566 billion years ago), while gas giants and icy bodies in the outer solar ...

A tiny comet fragment from the outer edges of the solar system was found on Earth — inside a meteorite. Scientists discovered a tiny blob of carbon about the width of a human hair inside a rocky ...

The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in ...

Today, more than 2,000 worlds have been discovered in the outer parts of the solar system, and there are most likely millions more. In the main Kuiper belt, these objects fall into two groups.

A new study by experts from Nasa and the University of Oxford suggests that Uranus gives out more heat than it receives from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Now's your chance to see the comet that passed within 100 million miles of Earth last week. City Desk Published Mar 12, 2013 • Last updated May 31, 2020 • 2 minute read ...

In our solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars have period ratios of about 2.6, 1.6, and 1.9, respectively. Overall, the study showed that our solar system fits reasonably well into the team ...

An intruder from outer space is zooming through our solar system, and a spacecraft launched to study Jupiter can provide ...