Planetary dating The first planetary seeds may have begun forming as soon as 600,000 years after the birth of our solar system, according to a new study. The new research led by Thomas Kruijer of ...

In this activity, you’ll learn how to make scale drawings of solar system orbits, learn about a team of women engineers who launched a satellite mission to orbit Mars, and then plot your own path ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older ... That place, the ice line – sometimes called the snow line – was in what’s now the asteroid belt, which is between Mars ...

also appear along this same line. Why are they in a line? It's because the solar system is flat. I know, last week I outlined two experiments you can do to prove that the Earth is not flat.

Astronomers have spotted the second object ever known to visit our solar system from another star system ... grabbing every telescope available to plot 2I/Borisov's path through space.

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...