Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...

Experts have uncovered some new insights into asteroid Ryugu. These insights were explained in the journal Nature. Researchers found that the parent rock of this asteroid held flowing water for over a ...

New modeling of the early solar system is reshaping the familiar story of how the Moon formed, suggesting that Earth and the impactor known as Theia may have spent their youth circling the Sun as near ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the early Solar System.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Backscatter electron (BSE), inverse pole figure (IPF) and grain reference orientation deviation (GROD) maps of olivine within NWA 12264. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...