A man searching for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia has stumbled on something far more ancient - a ...

Is it gold, or is it… older than Earth?” That question probably never once crossed David Hole’s mind when, in 2015, he swept ...

A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This incredibly dense and hard space rock, initially mistaken for a gold nugget, ...

David Hole thought he had struck gold with his metal detector but what he really discovered was far rarer - but it would take ...

Scientists have discovered a meteorite older than Earth, offering the earliest clues to how the Solar System formed and how ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

What shaped our solar system? By studying a meteorite that formed before the planets, scientists discovered that magnetic fields played a large part. It takes only about three million years. That’s ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

In some cases, to learn more about our solar system, all we have to do is look at evidence found on Earth. Researchers from Japan's Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

Chondrules, measuring between 0.1 and 2 millimeters in diameter, are molten rock droplets that have puzzled scientists for decades. These tiny spheres were formed under extreme conditions during the ...

What are chondrules and how do they form? Chondrules, small round droplets of molten rock, are found in meteorites today. They were formed when Jupiter's gravity disrupted the orbits of small rocky ...