Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

The scientific wonderers at What If model the gravitational chaos that would unfold if a black hole pulled the entire Solar ...

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.