Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

Our solar system, a cosmic ballet of planets held together by gravity and inertia, is uniquely structured compared to many other systems we observe in the universe. A notable difference is the absence ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

This region actually encapsulates our entire solar system, and is formed as a result ... dominated by the solar wind and the rest of the universe, leaving our cosmic neighborhood in this sort ...

A network of interconnected "tunnels" links our solar system to distant galaxies ... It highlights the dynamic nature of the universe and its evolution. Researchers aim to explore these tunnels ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System ... understand the early universe and the chances of life hiding elsewhere in the Solar System (and beyond).