The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans ...

Furthermore, the research indicates that Ryugu's parent body formed relatively early in the solar system's history, approximately 2 million years after the formation of the first solids.

Brown, Rein and Malhotra think that sometime during the Solar System’s formation, an uninvited guest anywhere between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter barged in fast enough to both shift the disk’s ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...