Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

1 / 6 | Visual: In this diagram, J, S, U, and N are the solar system’s giant planets. What’s the collective name for the objects in blue?

When most of us learn about the solar system, it seems like a pretty well-ordered place. Our sun formed first, about five billion years ago, and the planets appeared a little later. As a very general ...

NASA has done it again, and just achieved something truly out of this world – and almost out of this solar system. That’s because its Parker Solar Probe has just managed to “vacuum up” space dust ...

The idea of an undiscovered giant planet lurking in the Solar System might seem far-fetched, but new simulations suggest that a giant ice planet could be hidden beyond Neptune. This follows a pattern ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...