The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

One year after first encounter, we are now finding out what we learned about the most distant object NASA has ever visited. And it's telling us just how the building blocks of our solar system were ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how our solar system’s planets formed, because this isn’t a process they can watch unfold. Researchers have generally thought that Jupiter and Saturn grew out of ...

BERLIN – Scientists say they have detected significant amounts of molecular oxygen coming out of a comet, an unexpected find that may have implications for the search for alien life and understanding ...

The solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago by the explosion of a star at the end of its life cycle, according to a groundbreaking study of meteorites. Research suggests a low-mass supernova was ...

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

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 ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

A tiny comet fragment from the outer edges of the solar system was found on Earth — inside a meteorite. Scientists discovered a tiny blob of carbon about the width of a human hair inside a rocky ...