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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

Scientists have detected planet-forming pebbles around two young stars, providing insight into the birth of solar systems ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

This one is for anyone who likes their trivia a little all over the place. It’s a classic pub quiz setup - nothing too ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

If gravity reversed on the sun, McCluskey said he’d be scared because it is the only thing keeping the sun together. Nuclear fusion, inside the sun, pushes outward. Without gravity, the sun would ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Found on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, this visitor is only the third ...

A couple of meteorite samples currently being investigated could be the first pieces of Mercury on Earth. Ben Rider-Stokes, a ...

While this may sound scary, there is little chance humanity will survive to see the end of the universe. In about five ...