"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

To get pristine material and determine the history of these space rocks, and the solar system’s history, scientists need to intercept rocks — asteroids — in space. Scientists can study the asteroid ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Analysis of meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 suggests that we may have to alter our timeline of the early Solar System, potentially changing our models of planet formation. In 2018, a small meteorite ...

By studying 23 white dwarfs within 650 light-years of our sun, researchers have found materials absent from the solar system.

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

This solar system rocks. Michelle Thompson studies the moon, including samples from the last Apollo mission 50 years ago, and asteroids to understand the history and diversity of the solar system.