Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

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The solar system's largest moon may be heating up The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the ...