The Solar System is far messier than the neat diagrams most people learned at school: Mercury is Earth’s closest planet on ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

James Webb cannot see chariklo’s rings directly but their shadows revealed that something is happening to them.

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...

Asteroid Bennu's chemical fingerprint is revealing new clues about where it formed and the surprising role Jupiter played in ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Harvard University researchers recently examined carbonaceous chondrite meteorites using precise measurements of three ...