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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

🛍️ 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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