Scientists have thought that our solar system's inner rocky planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars —formed first (around 4.566 billion years ago), while gas giants and icy bodies in the ...

The Solar System, our cosmic home, is a fascinating and dynamic region of space filled with a diverse range of planets, moons, and other celestial objects. Deep dive into the incredible ...

Having a blast Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 240,000 years—a tiny fraction of a percent.

Our Solar System is beautiful, mysterious, largely unknown… and accessible. In the next hundred years, we can send robotic craft, and even human hands, to many of those worlds.