Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, ...

The dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent papers involving scientists from the University of California, Davis, ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and phosphorus.

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iron meteorites suggest Earth’s nitrogen and phosphorus may have come from early inner solar system planetesimals. (CREDIT: ...

You're probably familiar with how the solar system looks today. There are eight officially recognized planets located more or less on the same plane, orbiting the sun. But have you ever given a ...

Locals watched in awe as a fireball exploded and hundreds of meteorite fragments rained down on the city of Tatahouine, Tunisia, on June 27, 1931. Fittingly, the city later became a major filming ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Before the Earth and other planets formed, the young sun was still surrounded by cosmic gas and dust. Over the millennia, rock fragments of various sizes formed from the dust. Many of these became ...

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that ...