A nearby star that exploded some 3 million years ago could have removed all dust smaller than a millimetre from the outer ...

On this scale a circle two and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly as distant as is our moon.

Beyond Neptune's orbit lies a vast, ring-shaped expanse known as the Kuiper Belt. This region, home to countless icy rocks ...

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Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved from a monstrosity of gas and dust into the protosolar ...

Lava pools glowing on the night side of Jupiter's moon, Io, the most volcanic world in our solar system. Episode 4 ... shows from your local station, all from your favorite device.

Cory Padgett has a bachelor's degree in physics from MSU and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Clemson University. His ...

"You wanted this moment to belong just to yourself and the landscape: sunset on the rim of Valles Marineris, the largest ...

Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest and largest volcano in our solar system, stands at 16 miles high and 374 miles wide. Found ...

that they make up most or all of the dark matter; or that they are definitely here in our solar system." Instead, they say that if primordial black holes exist and make up most of dark matter ...

Gradually they got larger and larger, sweeping up all the leftover dust ... to the protoplanetary disc, to the solar system we see today. 'Earth formed from this nebula, so our journey to understand ...