Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the ...

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A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun. In a new study, they ascribe the differences to the conditions in the protoplanetary ...

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...