Fluctuating levels of radioactive iron-60 suggest the solar system recently entered a cosmic cloud.
A research team led by the University of Arizona has reconstructed in unprecedented detail the history of a dust grain that formed during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minnesota – If the chorus of “wows” and “ohs” was any indication, the “sky dome” was a big hit among students Thursday, March 16 at South Point Elementary School. In the gymnasium, ...
Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, ...
Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...
Premieres Wednesdays, Oct. 2 - 30, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app New discoveries are proving it – our solar system is a weird place, filled with bizarre worlds shaped by extreme forces ...