The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the striking claim in new research tracing when the young planet locked in the chemical makeup that still ...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

(Nanowerk News) Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 particles from the asteroid Ryugu has provided the most detailed evidence yet of magnetic fields present in the early solar system. A research team led by ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...