Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

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 ...

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, ...

The risks of solar activity stretch throughout the solar system, however. As NASA and other space agencies look to send humans beyond orbit, to the moon and to Mars, these organizations will need ...

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

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

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

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

All the nearest star-forming regions to the solar system are at the edge of the Local Bubble. There's a lot of star formation ... of incredible violence and activity and dynamism in our galaxy ...