Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...