An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been remains a mystery.

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

NARRATOR: Our solar system is home to eight planets, near-perfect spheres spinning through the darkness of space. But the more we explore, the more weird and wonderful worlds we discover.

Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic ... parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin properties have ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of Two Exoplanets Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers ...

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know ... Conservation of momentum made the collapsing cloud spin faster, and it heated up as it collapsed. Within 500,000 to a million years ...