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

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million years. Uranus and Neptune were next, within 10 million years. The inner ...

Our solar system consists of four small, rocky, inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars ... Astrophysical Observatory, which is part of the CfA. "This result suggests that in Jupiter ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

The UK Space Agency aims to contribute to NASA's space telescope searching for 'alien life beyond our Solar System' ...

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers ... fly into the sun – or even catastrophically altering Earth’s orbit and climate. The overall risk of these events ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum ... a fictional space station in Earth's orbit in the game. Elite Dangerous is set over 1,000 years in the future, so humanity has ...

The Solar System is very ... outside the Earth's orbit are abundant in the Galaxy," said co-author Jennifer Yee of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which is part of the CfA.