Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Research analyzing molybdenum isotopes in meteorites and Earth rocks shows our planet received its water later than ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

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 ...