The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets ... period of the planets in our Solar System are expressed sonically, with each celestial body having its own “soundprint”. As the ...

The second-largest asteroid in the solar system is Vesta, and it may be a piece of an ancient lost planet. […] ...

China launches Tianwen-2 to collect asteroid samples and chase a rare comet, marking a bold leap in its high-stakes Solar System exploration mission.

As a result, the borders of our Solar System remain ... sure that the large-scale shaping effects they were seeing could not be attributed to an interloping stellar body. And in the end, they ...

but is actually really close for the scale of the Kuiper Belt. It's very common in our solar system for moons that are close enough to their parent body to become tidally locked. And that is where ...

They believe that Vesta was on its way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System's rocky planets likely ... NASA's Dawn mission suggests that the body is more uniform than thought.

It wasn't always clear that A117uUD was a solar system body destined to leave its home planetary system. When the team behind this discovery first analyzed the icy space rock, they thought its ...