"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

Jupiter’s early growth carved rings in the solar system, delayed meteorite formation, and kept planets like Earth in stable ...

Cleaner air reduced cloud brightness over key ocean regions, allowing more sunlight through and potentially speeding regional ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Outer space contains more incredible phenomenons and unsolved mysteries than anywhere else—and we think it's just fascinating ...

Explore the vastness of the Solar System in this video, which accurately showcases the relative sizes of the planets and ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of our planet occurred: a huge celestial body called ...

A large radio galaxy study finds our solar system moves faster than theory predicts, raising new questions about how matter ...