Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...
New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...
Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
As humans, we’re curious about how we got here. When we look out at the night sky, we see stars and planets, even galaxies.