Moon has been Earth’s celestial companion for over four billion years. However, the formation of this natural satellite was ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

The Stardust team teased the specks from the gel, stuck them in their electron microscopes, and stared back at the birth of our solar system. They were stunned by what they saw. Scientists have ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System ...

The sample brought back to Earth by the Hayabusa 2 space probe is described as being very “fresh” because it originated relatively soon after the birth of the solar system about 4.6 billion ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

While most objects in our solar system orbit the same plane ... instantly collapsed into a small black hole right during the birth of the universe. Narrator: And they do mean small.

ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved from a monstrosity of gas and dust into the protosolar nebula that gave birth to our hydrogen ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...