Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a handful are known as angrites—and at least one of them might be the remnant of ...

(Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else ...

Accretion processes in protoplanetary disks produce a diversity of small bodies. In our solar system, small bodies played a crucial role in both early and late accretion of planets, after potentially ...

Understanding the birthplace of meteoritic materials is critical for reconstructing the early Solar System and contextualizing recent sample-return missions. Here, we use N-body simulations to ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...