The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS could serve as seeds for giant planet formation, potentially explaining how massive planets form around distant stars, according to BBC and Pfalzner’s research.

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

Jupiter's influence on our Solar System dates back to a time when Earth was still just a cloud of dust and gas. Long before ...

Artificial intelligence is helping scientists decode the Sun's most complex mysteries. In a first for space weather, researchers from academia, industry, and the Universities Space Research ...

Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across space — and occasionally, straight to our planet. With the help of ...

Planet Y is the latest in a series of hypothetical solar system planets that scientists have proposed in recent years, all with slightly different characteristics, but collectively believed to be ...