The meteorite Erg Chech 002 found in the Sahara desert in 2020 is one of the oldest known space rocks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and found it is very slightly older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in fact. That puts our solar system’s age at 4.5684 billion ...