2 long-vanished 'super Earths' once orbited near Neptune in our outer solar system, new study hints

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The ...
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This large moon has the most battered surface in the solar system – and NASA could put a base on it. Amazing facts about Jupiter's moon Callisto

Facts about Jupiter's moon Callisto, the third largest moon in the Solar System and the most heavily-cratered object.
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Rare Sahara meteorite may be a fragment of a lost planet destroyed at the solar system's dawn

"It’s incredible to think there was once a world this large." ...

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 ...
New Scientist

Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...
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NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System

The jokes write themselves. The post NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System ...

Scientists may have just found 10,000 planets beyond our solar system

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new exoplanets.

One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...
ZME Science

This Ancient Mineral Came From Beyond Our Solar System and Is Older Than the Earth

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...