The formation of Earth is a cosmic tale that stretches back over 4.5 billion years, from the swirling gases and dust of the solar nebula to the planet we know today. But how exactly did Earth come to ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this ...

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

As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s environment. Millions of years ago, one such passage may have dramatically ...

Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a high-speed comet traveling through our solar system. Scientists ...

In our solar system, the first solid material to condense near Earth around the sun is found trapped within ancient meteorites – or rocks from space that survive their trip through Earth's atmosphere.