Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...

Explore the epic history of the cosmos in this updated and remastered timelapse, journeying 13 billion years from the Big ...

The asteroid Bennu orbits the Sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 ...

What processes are responsible for the first planets in our solar system forming? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to addres | Space ...

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 ...

If the outer solar system’s first solid bodies had come with a recipe, it would have called for a generous helping of chondrules, millimeter-sized beads of rock forged by heat, and very little icy ...

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 ...

New sample analyses by researchers at ETH Zurich point to a surprising origin for the asteroid Bennu: rather than forming far out in the Solar System ...

A star and its planets form when a cloud of gas and dust collapses in on itself somewhere in space. The cloud then forms a ...

Half a gram of dust from space has yielded a scientific surprise: Researchers at ETH Zurich have figured out how the asteroid ...

Discovery of the youngest 'baby planet' ever observed. Mechanisms of early evolution that overturn established theories of ...

Keck Observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...