New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

Meteorites are remnants of the building blocks that formed Earth and the other planets orbiting our Sun. Recent analysis of their isotopic makeup led by Carnegie’s Nicole Nie and published in Science ...

A cluster of objects has astronomers puzzled. The post Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System appeared ...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the universe and its evolution.

Chinese scientists have identified impact remnants from meteorites in Chang’e-6 lunar samples, shedding light on the origin of water on the moon and offering new insights into material transfer in the ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

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 system has provided a rich source of information on planet formation and evolution in a young solar system. Researchers used a variety of tools to compile radial velocity and transit timing ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 43 (October 25, 2022), pp. 1-2 (2 pages) M. Maurice, N. Tosi, S ...

For a long time, engineers have contented themselves with setting strict degradation and unavailability numbers, often guided by an independent engineer’s recommendation, and handed those assumptions ...