The solar system orbits within the Milky Way's disk. Swinburne University of Technology is the only Australian research institution behind this global investigation, published in Nature Astronomy ...

"The disk, when viewed from a distance ... At an epic timescale "comparable to the age of the solar system," which is 4.6 billion years old, the researchers believe that the spiral arms formed ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three main groups of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the outer Solar System. ...

The solar system was literally turning itself inside ... and Neptune had been born close together in the solar nebula, a disk-shaped cloud littered with rocky and icy debris.

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the complex dance of planetary motion. The ancient belief that planets followed perfect circular orbits aligns intriguingly with modern theories of ...

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

"One of our key findings is that the formation pathways of the solar system and exoplanetary systems ... planetesimal accretion in the inner disk, while mini-Neptunes develop beyond the snow ...

UK stargazers were treated to a partial solar eclipse on Saturday morning, a phenomenon that sees the sun partially obscured ...

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