New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS spacecraft close flyby SwRI mission has gained global attention. Scientists propose a mission to ...

The research team at the University of Tokyo recently announced that based on the analysis of samples brought back from the Ryugu asteroid by the Hayabusa2 probe, they found that this near-Earth ...

Rosetta's trip to a comet might make scientists second guess the idea that magnetic fields led to the formation of planets. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system.

In recent years, the detection of rogue objects exiting our solar system has captivated the scientific community and the ...

The two planets circling Kepler-36, a sun-like star in its senior years, are as different as Earth and Neptune. But unlike the hundreds of millions of miles that separate our solar system's rocky ...