A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

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 ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

When the solar system was first organizing itself, a disk of gas and dust took shape around the sun's central mass. It eventually sorted itself into the system of planets we see today. But there ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

A meteorite, Northwest Africa 12264, is questioning the established timeline of our solar system's formation, suggesting ...

Overall, the study showed that our solar system fits reasonably well into the team’s peas-in-a-pod category. Dividing line Some peas-in-a-pod systems also have outer planets like our solar system.

The relative size of the inner planets of our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.