Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

Exocometary belts are found in at least 20% of planetary systems, including our own Solar System," said Luca Matrà, Associate Professor in Trinity's School of Physics, and senior author of the ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

which will provide valuable insights into the nature of the Kuiper Belt. “Even the discovery of a single or a few such new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed ...

And so our probes have mostly plied the relatively cozy confines inside the asteroid belt ... active solar cycle, and emphasized the importance of SDO in our solar early warning system.

Exocometary belts are found in at least 20% of planetary systems, including our own solar system," said Luca Matrà, Associate Professor in Trinity's School of Physics, and senior author of the ...