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

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.

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 ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

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

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...