New research confirms Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, with Jupiter acting as a barrier to outer Solar System debris. Isotopic analysis of meteorites shows a close ...

Planets may form more easily around pairs of stars than around single stars like the sun, according to new research.

Our Universe was born billions of years ago. And since that time, it’s given birth to millions of galaxies, our Solar System, ...

Scientists have long suspected this was a relatively peaceful process, with showers of primordial solids slowly raining out ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

The crew spent about seven hours circling the moon, taking photographs and making observations of never-before-seen features.

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Asteroid particles offer a glimpse into the chemical ...

(Nanowerk News) Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 particles from the asteroid Ryugu has provided the most detailed evidence yet of magnetic fields present in the early solar system. A research team led by ...

Over 4 billion years ago, an asteroid called Bennu was drifting through the solar system. Three years ago, NASA brought 121.6 grams of that space rock back to Earth. Scientists wanted to see if the ...