Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Asteroid Bennu's chemical fingerprint is revealing new clues about where it formed and the surprising role Jupiter played in ...

Tiny bits of rock recorded magnetic forces in the early solar system before the sun fully formed. Scientists recently figured ...

In a new study, researchers measured subtle variations in iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in Bennu grains. Their ...

The early stages of planet formation in the Solar System reveal a surprising selectivity in the materials that contributed to the creation of planets and ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system originated from a massive cloud of gas and dust, known as a "solar nebula." This cloud underwent significant ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

NASAs Lucy mission will study 11 asteroids during its 12-year journey. It has already visited two main-belt targets and will ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...