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

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

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: ...

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

Scientists have determined that a rare element found in some of the oldest solids in the solar system, such as meteorites, and previously thought to have been forged in supernova explosions, actually ...

Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.