About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...
New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...
Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...
Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...
Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...
Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.
A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...
In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...