Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

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 ...

What can a newly discovered interstellar comet teach scientists about solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the Na | Space ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

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

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Discover 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet with a reddish hue, rich in water ice, and possibly predating the solar system.