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Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada - the oldest rock formation known on Earth - probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet's nascent crust.

Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back a stunning sequence of serendipitous images showing the motion of a comet.

Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed.

NASA’s Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green, speaks to Dr Lindley Johnson, whose role as NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer is to help protect Earth from asteroid impacts.

The interstellar object 'Oumuamua perplexed scientists in October 2017 as it whipped past Earth at an unusually high speed.

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface.

The asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter's orbit, is the first known asteroid to have been captured from another star system.

A fleet of spacecraft heading to the small bodies of the Solar System could help further our understanding of the planets.

A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped object that entered our Solar System late last year.

More samples from comet dust particles are needed.