In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

Our solar system, a cosmic ballet of planets held together by gravity and inertia, is uniquely structured compared to many ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

This allows us to tackle key questions about the evolution of the early Solar System, planet formation ... and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The risk of impact is likely drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

suggesting that Bennu was part of a larger asteroid that formed about 4.5 billion years ago in the frigid, distant regions of the solar system. Ammonia is essential for many biological processes ...

Asteroids are fragmentary remnants of pre-existing parent bodies from early in our Solar System’s history that ... the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose. By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains ...