Earth will be long gone by then, but new research shows the outer planets will be thrown out too, and a billion times earlier ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

What new methods can be used to find long-period exoplanets, or exoplanets with orbits lasting from months to decades? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously unknown world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

In our solar system, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This pattern – rock to gas – has been consistently observed across the Milky ...