Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...
Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...
There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
A groundbreaking study of asteroid Ryugu has revealed something scientists never expected: water moved through its rocky ...
MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...
NASA's Artemis program is set to explore the Moon's south pole, a region of perpetual darkness holding clues to the solar ...
Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...
Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...