On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in jewellery since the Bronze Age and valued ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of rock and the first-ever garnet in a Martian meteorite, offering fresh clues about ...

When the Solar System formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young Sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometre-sized chunks known as ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...