A glimpse of the solar system's origins: Striking details on the molecules inside a meteorite

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...

The Most Promising Worlds Beyond Our Solar System

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...
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A black hole is coming for Jupiter, and the solar system could fall apart

It sounds like science fiction, but imagining a collision between Jupiter and a black hole helps reveal just how delicate our ...

Small, icy worlds in the outer solar system barely changed since birth

That pattern backs a "born big" view of planet construction. In the early solar system, clouds of pebble‑size material in the ...
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Here's how interstellar objects and rogue planets can be trapped in the solar system

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

Hubble and Webb find that far-out solar system objects 'remember' the past

For the first time, scientists used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the ...