Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...