The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The rare astronomical event will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn appear at the same time, ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert Wich Titusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have variable ...