Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality ...

In reality, astronomers don't yet have a complete ... which ebbs and flows as our solar system ambles through the Milky Way. (For objects near the Sun, like planets, the tide's effect is largely ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...

According to the ruling theory of how our solar system formed, each planet's orbit should be arranged in concentric circles around the sun that all lie on the same plane. But in reality ...

Solar scientists have found tiny ... which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind ... Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany previously ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found ...

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.