Scientists have seemingly settled long-standing arguments about whether the components of Earth originated from the inner or ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

New research confirms Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, with Jupiter acting as a barrier to outer Solar System debris. Isotopic analysis of meteorites shows a close ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary systems on its head. Scientists have discovered an alien solar system ...