A meteorite picked up from the sands of the Sahara has begun to complicate the quiet assumptions scientists often make about ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

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

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.