Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The research team said a typical cycle of measurements takes five minutes. To verify the accuracy of the new robot, the TRMC transients were measured 50 times over the identical sample.

The imprecision in the measurements of claimed interstellar fireballs means it is highly likely they originate in the solar system instead, a new study reports.

Then, by measuring the meteorite's lead isotopes, they determined its age to be approximately 4.564 billion years, similar to inner solar system basalts, which are present in planetary crusts.

The interstellar network is sustained by the explosive life cycles of stars that generate powerful solar winds. Past research ...

But the solar system really is flat. All the planets and most of the asteroids orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, so that when you view them from Earth they line up neatly.

However, on the much smaller scales of our solar system, it’s hard to measure the miniscule changes affected by dark matter, even at the distances of the outer planets. Credit: Astronomy: Roen ...

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 240,000 years—a tiny fraction of a percent.