Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

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Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Scientists have discovered a meteorite older than Earth, offering the earliest clues to how the Solar System formed and how ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...