As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows asteroid bombardment continued long after the Late Heavy Bombardment period.

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by ...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the solar system’s early history NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge ...

16 Psyche the large metallic asteroid ideal for space mining. NASA imagery was used for this composite from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...

Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by ...