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

Scientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings have surpassed those expectations, and the latest one adds to the ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

Astronomers use readings by JWST and ALMA to detect what they believe to be condensation that will eventually lead to planet formation.

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west.

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore, their primitive composition means that they offer a window into the ...