The solar system — the gravitational system composed of the sun and everything that orbits it — is like our local ...

Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...

Tiny bits of rock recorded magnetic forces in the early solar system before the sun fully formed. Scientists recently figured out how to read these ancient records, which suggest that a powerful ...

Discovery suggests raw ingredients for life are common in the dusty discs out of which planets are born.

Research rules out a supernova as the cause of the solar system forming, but suggests winds from a massive star may be responsible Our solar system seems to have been blown into existence by the winds ...

Harvard geoscientists reported that organic matter harvested from certain meteorites bears chemical traces of “primitive ...

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby planets over millions of years. In a recent study published in The ...

Fomalhaut is a massive young star surrounded by a ring of dust debris that can tell us a great deal about the formation of our own solar system.