Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Jupiter, the colossal planet at the heart of our solar system, has long been a subject of intrigue. Recent research from Rice ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...