How do you picture the solar system? Most of us imagine the eight planets as colorful balls of varying sizes moving in orbits that comfortably fit within the confines of our computer screens. But ...

To unravel the mystery of Jupiter's birth, scientists turned their attention to meteorites. These cosmic 'messengers' carry a ...

How Jupiter and Saturn Formed From Mere Pebbles Discover the new insights into solar system formation through pebble accretion theory and groundbreaking computer simulations.

Arrokoth is a planetesimal in the Kuiper Belt, a vast stretch of space beyond Neptune that holds remnant building blocks of the solar system leftover from our cosmic neighborhood's formation.

Kyoto-based Laplace System Co., Ltd. (President and CEO: Masayuki Horii) has announced the release of the latest international version of its photovoltaic system simulation software, Solar Pro 5.0.

Prevailing solar system formation theories indicate that these planets should have at least started out following perfectly circular and share the same orbit.

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

Ultimately, without a time machine, we will never fully recover the precise history of our solar system's formation, so we will never be entirely sure what role giant impacts had in the ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has recently celebrated a new birthday, pinpointing its formation to approximately 4.5 billion years ago. This significant revelation comes from the ...