The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there ...

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...