Michael R. Meyer 1, Lynne A. Hillenbrand 2, Dana Backman 3, Steve Beckwith 4,5, Jeroen Bouwman 6, Tim Brooke 2, John Carpenter 2, Martin Cohen 7, Stephanie Cortes 1, Nathan Crockett 8, Uma Gorti 9, ...

Clarifying the magnitude and length of the Late Heavy Bombardment has implications across the full range of planetary geosciences, from understanding the dynamical evolution of the Solar System to ...

On September 3, scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid have discovered a variety of unusual materials, some of which existed even before the formation of the Sun. Three recent papers ...

The researchers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, to identify this very young planet, named WISPIT 2b, which orbits a ...

A. G. W. Cameron, The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System, Scientific American, Vol. 233, No. 3 (September 1975), pp. 32-41 ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution.

Astronomers have traced the evolution of the solar system back to its cosmic womb, before the sun and planets were born.