About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.