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Solar System

The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar molecular cloud.

A supernova may have caused Earth’s mass extinction 359 million years ago
  • Atmosphere

A supernova may have caused Earth’s mass extinction 359 million years ago

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
Red giant star Betelgeuse dimmed because it ‘sneezed,’ astronomers explain
  • Atmosphere

Red giant star Betelgeuse dimmed because it ‘sneezed,’ astronomers explain

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
Dwarf planet Ceres is covered in deep salty oceans, spacecraft finds
  • life

Dwarf planet Ceres is covered in deep salty oceans, spacecraft finds

  • James Maynard
  • 5 years ago

Revolutionary technique lets astronomers find a huge planet that’s just like Saturn
  • exoplanet

Revolutionary technique lets astronomers find a huge planet that’s just like Saturn

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
Scientists: What if black holes had a safe zone where little planets could live? Let’s call them ‘blanets’
  • Milky Way

Scientists: What if black holes had a safe zone where little planets could live? Let’s call them ‘blanets’

  • Tristan Greene
  • 5 years ago
Look, human, it’s the first photo of planets orbiting a sun 300 light years away
  • Planetary system

Look, human, it’s the first photo of planets orbiting a sun 300 light years away

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
Asteroids may be the reason Earth is covered in water
  • Space

Asteroids may be the reason Earth is covered in water

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
The Solar Orbiter just snapped the closest-ever pictures of the Sun
  • NASA

The Solar Orbiter just snapped the closest-ever pictures of the Sun

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
Colonizing our solar system will make our species very hard to eliminate
  • Artificial intelligence

Colonizing our solar system will make our species very hard to eliminate

  • Aeon
  • 5 years ago
Will we ever find Planet 9? The mystery that could lie at the edge of our solar system
  • Astronomer

Will we ever find Planet 9? The mystery that could lie at the edge of our solar system

  • The Cosmic Companion
  • 5 years ago
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