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 ...

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

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 ...

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

🛍️ 100+ early Prime Day deals. Get shopping now. 🛍️ By Laura Baisas Published Jul 16, 2025 11:00 AM EDT This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages ...

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 ...

Jupiter’s formation caused violent rock collisions that formed chondrules, revealing clues about how planets and solar systems are born. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Over four billion years ago, the solar ...

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 ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A team of researchers from NASA recently uncovered strong evidence for a rare ...

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