NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made an astonishing visit to Arrokoth, a remote Kuiper Belt object, uncovering vital clues about the solar system's early formation. This ancient body exhibits a ...

Researchers have developed a novel technique to investigate the dynamics of the early Solar System by analyzing magnetites in meteorites utilizing the wave nature of electrons. Within meteorites, the ...

After examining a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 2024, NASA is uncovering new details about ancient water, the chemical changes that shaped early asteroids and the materials that may have helped ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

"The Moon is like a time capsule—it has preserved a record of events that have been erased from Earth by erosion, plate ...

Age data for certain classes of meteorite have made it possible to gain new findings on the origin of small water-rich astronomical bodies in the early solar system. These planetesimals continually ...

Widespread magnetism dating from our solar system’s earliest beginnings some 4.57 billion years ago likely played a major role in creating orbital order out of chaos. But until now, magnetism’s role ...

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How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of ...

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Before the Earth and other planets formed, the young sun was still surrounded by cosmic gas and dust. Over the millennia, rock fragments of various sizes formed from the dust. Many of these became ...