In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...

While one of the prominent theories is that the Moon formed due to a collision between the early Earth and the protoplanet Theia, researchers from the University of Gottingen and the Max Planck ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...