The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

A rare meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert proves that our solar system almost had at least one extra planet. In a ...

The ice giant, now missing, may have disrupted some of the moons of Uranus and Jupiter.

Research in Solar System planetary science spans the origin, evolution and present‐day processes affecting planets, moons, minor bodies and their interactions. The field addresses how protoplanetary ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

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Scientists have long believed that comets and a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the sources of early Earth’s volatile elements — which include hydrogen, nitrogen, ...

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.

Estimating ages of specific events is one of the most difficult problems in astrophysics. While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each ...

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.