This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

In another weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that strong jet stream and Eastern storms split solar conditions across the U.S. in April, with the east experiencing a ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

Maps can help locate the different land and water features areas of Earth. ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System (6-8) The solar system consists of the sun and a collection of objects, including planets, ...

UCF scientists and collaborators analyzed far-away bodies — known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) — and found varying ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

Aditya-L1, a new solar observatory launched in 2023, wasted no time proving its worth. Just a few months after it was ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's ...

This study has the potential to help scientists better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets and how they vary from our own solar system. The newly discovered exoplanet, TOI-2005 b, is ...