For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

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

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...

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

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

These bodies retain imprints of the Solar System’s early history, and their orbital distributions provide vital clues about early planetary formation, subsequent dynamical evolution, and the ...

“It’s predicted that once the magnetic field drops by a factor of 10-100 in the inner solar system, which we’ve now shown, the solar nebula goes away really quickly, within 100,000 years ...

In March, May, and August 2023 the telescope spotted a potential object on the outskirts of our Solar System. Follow-up observations in July 2024 using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope confirmed ...

The planets of our solar system formed together with their mother star, and the Earth did likewise, emerging about 4.5 billion years ago around the sun.