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

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

A new study shows chemical compounds for life on Earth likely came from our inner solar system and not a distant comet or meteor and Jupiter played a part.

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

An artist's conception showing a planetary smash-up between a Moon-sized object and a Mercury-sized object. (NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

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

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. When ...

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood, quietly ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Astronomers have investigated a puzzling binary star system in which two stars that may have formed together now show ...