Discovery suggests raw ingredients for life are common in the dusty discs out of which planets are born.

You start your day hearing wild news. Jupiter has just swallowed Saturn. And it doesn’t stop there. Jupiter is on its way to ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar system. More than 4.5 billion years later, scientists have learned how to read ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.

Modelling suggests that the planets’ orbits will become destabilized inside one billion years once the Sun starts to shed ...