He began to suspect that our solar system’s history had been anything but smooth—that it had somehow endured a “global gravitational instability,” as he now calls it. In 2004 he gathered ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu have shed light on the origins of the outer solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. MIT ...

This breakthrough could change how we understand the Solar System's formation and history, and it suggests similarities between our Solar System and other planetary systems, which holds important ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

(laughs) The discovery of the Kuiper Belt helped us to better understand our solar system as it is now, and also its history. LUU: The Kuiper Belt is really the frontier if you want to understand ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, 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 ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

Horizon: Secrets of the Solar System New planets are now being discovered outside our Solar System on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of ...

Such a strange planet on such an odd orbit. It would really change our understanding of the history of the solar system. Narrator: But if it is proven that this is a black hole in our own outer ...

The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was transformed into our Sun. The processes that followed ... Many of the asteroids in the solar system melted early on in their history to form an ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...