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 ...

"Very early in the formation of the solar system, we believe large asteroids collided and broke into pieces to form an 'asteroid family' with Polana as the largest remaining body," said SwRI's Dr ...

Understanding Mercury’s shrinking radius: How the smallest planet in our solar system continues contracting Recent research shows that Mercury’s radius has decreased by 2.7 to 5.6 kilometres.

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered? New images from the Hubble ...

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the ...

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How did the Earth and moon form? The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. The dust particles were brought ...

Solar system coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.