Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies ...

At 4.6 billion years old, the Solar System is our solid, secure home in the Universe. But how did it come to be? In this episode we trace the system's birth from a thin cloud of dust and gas.

Apart from all that, the universe is interesting as it is, and the recent finding of an ’interstellar highway’ within the Local Hot Bubble (LHB) is even more intriguing. This is a region of space that ...

Need a new idea to keep kids entertained? Try stargazing. Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning ...

New insights into the origins of high-energy cosmic-ray electrons point to a mysterious source close to our solar system.

The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and dust, twisting through the universe without direction or form. About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

The Sun is the most dynamic and complex object in our Solar System. To study it more closely, the ESA launched the Solar ...