Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

What will Earth and the solar system look like thousands, millions, or even a billion years from now? From massive asteroid impacts and supervolcanoes to a new supercontinent, Mars potentially gaining ...

James Webb cannot see chariklo’s rings directly but their shadows revealed that something is happening to them.

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Explore the fascinating Cryovolcanoes of the Outer Solar System! Discover icy worlds like Enceladus and Europa, their geysers, and what they reveal about a ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study our smallest planetary neighbor ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Harvard University researchers recently examined carbonaceous chondrite meteorites using precise measurements of three ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

The number of rocky extrasolar planets being discovered continues to increase, but so too does the apparent diversity of such worlds.