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.

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

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewritin ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized protoplanet named Theia slammed into the young Earth, causing a massive cataclysm that reshaped the very structure of the planet. This was a direct hit ...

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

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

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 ...

Latest Research and Reviews Rapid protoplanet formation in the outer Solar System recorded in a dunite from the carbonaceous chondrite reservoir ...