A new study suggests Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, challenging the idea that ...

Back in 2015, NASA’s Kepler mission spotted a planet that looked remarkably close to our own, a world now known as Kepler ...

A new research study has challenged what scientists think about Earth’s origin and how it came into existence. For years, the origin of raw material responsible for Earth formation has been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered ...

New research shows extreme space weather may be stronger than expected, raising concerns for satellites and power grids.

Kornmesser Solar system simulations starting from varied initial conditions suggest that Earth-like planets can emerge naturally from planet formation. Computer simulations of planetary systems can ...

E arly in the history of the Solar System, the Sun might have engulfed a sizable rocky planet, several times the mass of the ...

The Solar System is much more than a collection of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. It is our home in the cosmos. The Solar System's only star, which we call the Sun, plays a role in nearly ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons. Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid ...