JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

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While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Our solar system is way more bizarre and dynamic than what our school textbooks taught us. From Venus being super hot to ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.