Exoplanet magnetic field measurement became possible for first time as astronomers used MeerKAT to detect circularly ...

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 ...

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic equilibrium developed over billions of years. Toying with the positioning of ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first who presented the heliocentric system, maintaining that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

A star and its planets form when a cloud of gas and dust collapses in on itself somewhere in space. The cloud then forms a ...

SolarBalls — a space animation that blends comedy with educational content about the solar system and the universe.

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has detected the largest newly formed crater ever found in the solar system, ...