Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the outer solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. By analyzing these ancient ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Dr Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Sciences Collections at the Museum, sheds light on the secrets the ...

The HR 8799 system, a mere 30 million years old, is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation ...

Gregory, whose research focuses on these rocks, says, 'Chondrites contain the first solids that formed in the solar system. By analysing them we can figure out how old the solar system is. 'We can ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...