Our solar system, a cosmic ballet of planets held together by gravity and inertia, is uniquely structured compared to many ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Earth System Sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies the interactions between the Earth's physical, chemical, biological, and human systems. Recent research in this area has focused on ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.