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 ...

The tests revealed traces of an ancient magnetic field preserved inside the grains. From those signals, the researchers ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the ...

A Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago may have uncovered a forgotten chapter of Solar System history. Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a lunar meteorite are helping scientists understand a violent era ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...