When Jupiter finished clearing out its neighborhood, it may have done more than carve a gap in the young Solar System. Just ...

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

You're probably familiar with how the solar system looks today. There are eight officially recognized planets located more or less on the same plane, orbiting the sun. But have you ever given a ...