Stretching billions of miles beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is a vast ring of icy worlds — a frozen frontier where ancient ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located ...