Why doesn’t our solar system have sub-Neptune exoplanets and what can they teach us about planetary formation and evolution?

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects. Nat Astron (2024). Licandro, J., Pinilla-Alonso, N., Holler, B.J. et al. Thermal evolution of trans ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, who have uncovered a massive molecular cloud located just 300 ...