A Giant ‘Planet Factory’ Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System

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

A Blip on a Telescope in a Colorado Parking Lot Bolstered a Space Mission That Has Found Thousands of Planets … and Counting

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...

Rare meteorite proves our solar system almost had an extra planet

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

Scientists uncover evidence of a planet that vanished from our solar system

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...
IFLScience

The Solar System May Have Ejected A Fifth Giant Planet – Which Would Explain How Uranus Held Onto Its Moons

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...