A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

The Solar System’s future over the next five billion years will be shaped by the slow but dramatic evolution of the Sun. As the Sun grows brighter, Earth’s oceans may eventually evaporate and the ...

Understanding how and when objects like Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko took shape is of utmost importance in determining how exactly they can be used to interpret the formation and early evolution of ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...