How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave ...

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 ...

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 ...

history. We think that many other stars have ... The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system's mass. It sheds most of the heat and light that ...

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 ...

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...

Our results contribute to a better understanding of the Solar System's earliest developmental stages, and the geological ...

The history of eclipses not only connects us with humans across time—sharing that sense of wonder at our place in the cosmos—but also sheds light on the subtle motions in our solar system.

Our solar system resides inside a vast cavity, now known as the Local Bubble, which is about 1,000 light-years across. The Local Bubble is a region of surprisingly low-density gas that surrounds ...

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 ...

From the original mass of matter now forming our solar system came first Neptune ... nothing more can be learned of its past and present history. It is an attribute of weak human nature, perhaps ...

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 ...