While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Learn why NASA's mechanical battery system outperforms lithium-ion in durability and precision for energy storage. NASA's ...

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been ... Oregon FIGHTING FOREST FIRES [See page 200] The angular momentum of the system when the gaseous central body extended ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.