While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

A first-of-its kind AI-powered model attempts to better predict space weather and its impacts. The model — called Surya, for the Sanskrit word for "sun," was put together by NASA and IBM and trained ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

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More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...