Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on earth, our exact location in the solar system, and how to keep astronauts safe ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of similar mass.

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...