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 ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

What can heat distribution within galaxy clusters, which often consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies, teach astronomers about their formation and ev | Space ...

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

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 ...

SPA basin is one of the Moon’s largest and oldest impact features in the solar system. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is ...