The solar system is rich in asteroids - there are thousands said to be in the vicinity of Earth and hundreds of thousands more towards Jupiter, many of which reside in the asteroid belt. In a ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

University of Chicago researchers have discovered a rare element known as curium which was present in a meteorite during the birth of the solar system some 4.6billion years ago. François Tissot, the ...

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation that shows our solar system's planets rotating in a single globe The globe shows slices of the best parts of each planet The animation ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

A binary star system is made up of two stars rotating around each other, trapped in a complex dance guided by their gravitational pull. But astronomers have discovered an even more complex kind of ...

A star some 450 light years away was found to have dust and gas rings It led scientists to revisit a solar system formation theory from the 1700s The study opened new possibilities for astronomers to ...

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If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University suggests that if it weren't for the gas giant, the Earth would have ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Professor Caroline Smith, our Head of Collections and a meteorite expert, sheds light on the secrets the ...