While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ...

James Unwin: If we do do our searches and it turns out that there is a planet in the outer solar system, this would be an absolutely incredible discovery. Such a strange planet on such an odd orbit.

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

And that is always a moving experience.” Brown is still busy investigating the outer solar system, but he managed to tear himself away to discuss the next big mysteries in our corner of the ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system more than 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.