The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

In a remarkable twist of cosmic fate, astronomers are scratching their heads over the enigmatic 3I/Atlas, an object zipping through our solar system at an astonishing speed of 118,000 mph. This ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

The research, published in Scientific Reports, pinpointed the age of Jupiter's formation to about 4.5 billion years ago, approximately 1.8 million years after the solar system's inception. By studying ...

You know, if you think about it, and trust me we're about to, the moon is kind of weird. Of all the terrestrial worlds of the ...

Jupiter's formation disrupted planetesimal orbits, causing high-speed collisions that created molten rock droplets, or ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

The data from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu revealed that they could be from the Polana asteroid family, along with ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the ...

Learn how scientists used ancient raindrops preserved in meteorites to accurately date Jupiter’s creation for the first time.