Solar storms have the potential to cause catastrophic damage. One that occurred around the end of October 2003 (now called ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

driven off from the inner planets condensed in a ring or disc beyond the snow line in the outer regions of the young solar system. Gravity pulled these materials together, and that is where we ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

"That line is called the ecliptic, and it represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the Sun." To see the planets line up, head outside on a clear night after sunset.

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

(bursting) "Solar System: Wandering Worlds," right now on ... We think that Ceres formed beyond what is known as the ice line for ammonium ices. NARRATOR: Beyond this ice line, ammonia freezes ...

The team will now investigate even further back in time to find other times the solar system crossed paths with dense interstellar clouds and to determine if these also line up with ice ages.