Learn how scientists used ancient raindrops preserved in meteorites to accurately date Jupiter’s creation for the first time.

– Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago.

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers. Conventional ...

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system. Video above: ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...