The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The moon was probably formed from the earth by solar tidal disruption, this method being abnormal in the system, and the later evolution of the earth and moon has been dominated by bodily tidal ...

With legislative momentum around clean power generation and net-zero emissions policies rapidly building, the U.S. is seeing ...

The solar system stretches outward from the sun ... We are currently just exploring what processes drive the formation and evolution of other solar systems, and what we can learn from this ...

"Our own solar system, for example ... we have been able to test exciting new hypotheses for the evolution of planetary ...

“Solar system evolution is dynamic,” Levison says. “It’s violent. Our solar system is probably on the mild side compared with what happens elsewhere. You probably need that mildness in ...

Astronomers have narrowed down on the possible location in the Solar System where the elusive planet nine may be hiding, an ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a potential second Kuiper Belt, expanding the boundaries of our solar system. Here's ...

Asteroids may not be the sexiest objects in the solar system. But in many ways ... organic molecules were formed in the early chemical evolution of our planet or whether they were brought from ...

In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...