Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The latest research on asteroid Bennu has revealed its heterogeneous origin and a parent world with flowing water, adding to ...

Rowan University geology chair Harold Connolly, Jr., Ph.D., who serves as mission sample scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

The secret life of aluminum Around 4.567 billion years ago, our Solar System formed from a vast cloud of gas and dust. Among the many elements in this cloud was aluminum, which came in two forms.

A new brief history of the Solar System Using this information, the team was able to calculate new times for the last events of each type that contributed material to the Solar System, before it ...

Clues About The Solar System's HistoryIn a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to ...

The age of the solar system is set at 4.567 billion years, and the new work traces some of the history of these small grains during about 300,000 years, before the formation of comets, asteroids ...

We know quite a lot about the history of our Solar System and how it came to be. There's so much we've learned by watching other stars form, by examining distant star-forming regions, by measuring ...

In a recent study, scientists have demonstrated a high likelihood that about 2-3 million years ago, the solar system passed through a relatively dense cloud of cold interstellar gas which could ...