Meteorites preserve fragments of the earliest solid materials that formed around the young Sun. The Solar System began as a cloud of dust and gas called the solar nebula — the Sun formed at the centre ...

A rare observation opportunity revealed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small object beyond Pluto.

Welcome to SolarBalls, where you can enjoy entertaining space animations that educate you about the solar system and the ...

The layout of our solar system follows a hidden pattern shaped billions of years ago. This video explains why rocky planets ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system was born from a vast cloud that collapsed to form the sun and a surrounding disk of whirling gas, no planets yet orbited our star. Back then, besides ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with atmosphere, they have a wide range of characteristics distinguishing them. But if ...

You're a long-necked Titanosaur grazing the plains and chomping away on tree leaves about 100 million years ago in the Early ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, ...

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something ...

Astronomers who simulate galaxies do not always get the same result, even when they start from identical conditions. New ...