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 ...
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebula that swirled around, eventually collapsing under its own gravity into a rapidly rotating ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "fireball" meteorite that landed in a driveway in the United Kingdom last month could provide a glimpse into what the solar ...
A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases as ...
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 and NASA's OSIRIS-REx have both spent years trying to intercept asteroids and collect samples that can be returned to Earth. Now the same kind of rock ...
A slice of the El Ali meteorite, now housed in the U of A's Meteorite Collection, contains two minerals never before seen on Earth. A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that ...
When our solar system formed, Mars formed earlier than Earth, and its composition gives clues about early steps in planet formation. A new UC Davis study overturns previous ideas about how rocky ...