We usually think of our Solar System as a calm, well-organized family of planets, but a new study suggests its early days may ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

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 ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite meteorite groups to a single dust trap beyond Jupiter’s orbit, showing for the ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Research suggests Earth received most of its phosphorus and nitrogen from nearby planetary building blocks, reshaping ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

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Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...