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 ...

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

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

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...