This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is ...
A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...
The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the ...
Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
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After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...