The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

A TEAM of astrophysicists have made a bombshell scientific discovery after detecting a radio signal coming from beyond the ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

In a new study, researchers measured subtle variations in iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in Bennu grains. Their ...

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study our smallest planetary neighbor ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically ...

If the outer solar system’s first solid bodies had come with a recipe, it would have called for a generous helping of chondrules, millimeter-sized beads of rock forged by heat, and very little icy ...

New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...