The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...

Widespread magnetism dating from our solar system’s earliest beginnings some 4.57 billion years ago likely played a major role in creating orbital order out of chaos. But until now, magnetism’s role ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...