Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Planetary retrogrades offer an opportunity for introspection and resolving unfinished karmic lessons. These periods encourage ...

Learn about the 128 newly discovered moons of Saturn, believed to be the remnants of collisions that occurred early in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected carbon dioxide directly on exoplanets for the first time. This allows the formation of planets to be reconstructed.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a cautionary tale from planet hunting’s prehistory ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...