Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known ...

A meteorite, Northwest Africa 12264, is questioning the established timeline of our solar system's formation, suggesting ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...