New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Our solar system contains planets ... Eventually, the researchers suspect, a gravitational disturbance from Jupiter flung the parent body out of its original orbit. It ended up between Mars and Earth, ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Known as planetary alignment, this rare event lets sky-gazers see six planets, including Neptune and Uranus, with a telescope ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Whereas our solar system's oldest moons, such as the inner moons of Jupiter and Saturn ... process allows both objects to retain their original size. When proto-Charon impacts proto-Pluto ...

A Noida-based Class 9 student has earned the remarkable distinction of naming an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter after making the groundbreaking discovery himself.

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Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

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