The name itself actually precisely describes its field of research: the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. The scientists in Göttingen focus on Earth's cosmic neighbourhood – the Sun, the ...

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 ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...

The International Journal of Astrobiology is the peer-reviewed ... life detection in our solar system and beyond, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the history of the science of ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI ... were accepted for publication on Feb. 23 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Join our Space Forums ...

The solar system envelops within itself a multitude of secrets. Astronomers across generations have tried to resolve these mysteries. A recent study published in the Planetary Science Journal ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal ... other solar systems.” An exoplanet is any planet outside of our own solar system. Like the planets ...

Credit: The Planetary Science Journal (2025). DOI ... because even though these things are probably in our solar system, they're just a tiny, tiny fraction of all the asteroids and other objects ...

according to a study in The Astrophysical Journal. The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old — just a baby compared to our solar system's 4.6 billion years.