Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

This peak of activity is expected to last for another year, according to NASA.

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Despite not being the closest planet to the Sun, Venus still holds the title as the hottest due to its thick atmospheric ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

An explosion of particles arrived at Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible northern lights in much of the country ...

Planetesimals are small rocky bodies that served as the main building blocks of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. They were formed around 4.6 billion years ago in the disk of dust and ...

The largest celestial bodies in our solar system that still exist—massive asteroids and minor planets—are thought to be the last vestiges of this era of planetary formation. This is the period during ...

Starman Brian Cox talks about travel to Mars, science and failed experiments and how his latest series is informed by ...

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...

Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...