Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu have shed light on the origins of the outer solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that provide a window into the solar system's past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

Ancient asteroid samples contain crucial clues about the solar system, a new study has revealed. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, presents findings from Japanese Hayabusa2, a mission ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two astronomers think they've pinpointed the ancient stellar collision that gave our solar system ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

Hard and fast details about our solar system’s beginnings are extraordinarily difficult to come by. But a research team using new measurements of pristine magnetic fields within two extremely rare ...

ORLANDO — In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful space telescope to study a different kind of hybrid lurking in our ...