CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a ...

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation theories.

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made yet another exciting discovery—but it never works alone. Thanks ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewritin ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter.

Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You might be lucky enough to catch one.

Millions of asteroids, not a planet, exist in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. If all asteroids combined, their mass would be only 4% of the Moon's mass. Meteorite analysis shows they ...

Astronomers from SETI Institute, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Curtin University have traced the impact orbit of 75 observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun.