In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...
ASA selected two missions to explore the earliest history of our solar system, a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our Sun. The Discovery missions Psyche and Lucy were selected from ...
Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by ...
A prehistoric “fossil” has been found at the edge of our Solar System — and it might bury the legend of Planet 9! The object, 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” drifts far beyond Pluto and may be older ...
Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...
16 Psyche the large metallic asteroid ideal for space mining. NASA imagery was used for this composite from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors ...
Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, could be an intact survivor from the planet’s original satellite system, upending ...
Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...
Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...