A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...