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

Scientists believe they have worked out where asteroid Bennu formed in the solar system, they hope the answer will provide ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have identified 27 mysterious new objects hovering at the edge of our Solar System.

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 ...

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 ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Scientists have taken an unusually detailed look at the organic chemistry preserved inside two meteorites, revealing tens of ...

When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies — such as planets, moons, and protoplanets — it basically had a choice between ...

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...