“The host filament can shield the young Solar System from stellar feedback, both during the formation and evolution of stars (stellar outflow, wind, and radiation) and at the end of their ...

The solar system coalesced from a huge cloud of dust and gas that was isolated from the rest of the Milky Way galaxy for up to 30 million years before the sun's birth nearly 4.6 billion years ago ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...

The aqueous alteration was found to have peaked before ~2.6 Myr after the formation of the solar system, through analysis of manganese and chromium within magnetite (iron oxide) and dolomite ...

Michael R. Meyer 1, Lynne A. Hillenbrand 2, Dana Backman 3, Steve Beckwith 4,5, Jeroen Bouwman 6, Tim Brooke 2, John Carpenter 2, Martin Cohen 7, Stephanie Cortes 1, Nathan Crockett 8, Uma Gorti 9, ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether ...

Using a limited set of mathematical equations, a mathematical sciences professor said he has confirmed a 224-year-old math conjecture about the origins of our solar system, providing insights ...

The violence isn't confined to the inner solar system, either. The outer planet Uranus has a severe tilt, as the planet sits almost completely on its side. Even Uranus' moons orbit the planet ...