Our solar system is the only one known to have life inside. While scientists are searching for water in other planets, a new ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in roughly the same flat plane? This fascinating phenomenon isn’t a coincidence but a direct result of how our solar system ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

Their calculations reveal that roughly 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solids formed—a key moment when the disk of material around the sun, known as the protoplanetary nebula ...

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study ...

NASA shows how asteroids shaped Earth’s past. They still hold the power to reset life as we know it, but scientists are ready ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Jupiter's radius used to be twice its current size, and the planet had a magnetic field 50 ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

In the northern part of the constellation you’ll find NGC 7008, sometimes called the Fetus Nebula due to its unusual shape.

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

The Hubble is a “glowing success story of America’s technological prowess”, says NASA. Among its long list of breakthroughs, Hubble’s deep field observations in 1995 captured roughly 3,000 distant ...