The Latest Breaking News from Solar System

Most of the worlds of our Solar System are pockmarked with impact craters. These bear testament to the violence of the early days of the Sun, when asteroids, comets and entire planets routinely collided with and annihilated each other.

Martian meteorites found their way to Earth. In turn, they bore a chemical that has the secret to how much water was on ancient Mars.

The Leonids, made of debris from 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, become a storm once every 33 years or show. It won't happen this year, but still should put on a spectacular show.

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It had been previously thought that planets only form once a star has reached its final size.

They bring information about their parent asteroids and comets — and the solar system's history.

Four billion years ago, the solar system was still young. Almost fully formed, its planets were starting to experience asteroid strikes a little less frequently. Our own planet could have become habitable as long as 3.9 billion years ago, but its primitive biosphere was much different than it is today. Life…

The asteroid is almost one mile long, meaning that it would cause an extinction event if it hit Earth

If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7.

It may be the biggest potentially dangerous asteroid discovered in the past eight years.

What would happen if the world split in half? – Ronan, age 5, Melbourne