Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Scientists mapping the bubble our solar system finds itself in made a new discovery, there is an “interstellar tunnel” that ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

Research on Ryugu samples indicates a faint magnetic field within 3 million years of solar system formation, impacting ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

Stardust left behind from the dawn of our solar system has allowed scientists to estimate the Sun took between 10 and 20 million years to form. While there is consensus the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

The Local Hot Bubble is a vast region of thin, hot gas stretching hundreds of light-years around our solar system. Scientists ...