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 ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. Analysis of meteorite Northwest Africa ...

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?

A new study in Nature has revealed unexpected evidence that the asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it. The ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

A timeline of the solar system etched into a concrete sidewalk. Included are drawings of the planets depicting their positions; the traveling time of sunlight to the planets and the revolutions of the ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...