"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

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At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that ...

The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...

Isotopic fingerprints in lunar, terrestrial, and meteorite samples show Theia formed in the inner Solar System, likely near ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...