Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...
Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...
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The Incredible Story Of How Our Solar System Came To Be
About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...
Discovery of oxygen raises new questions about how solar system formed. In this undated photo, Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P. ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 — -- The European Space ...
A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...
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Was Mercury formed by a cosmic hit-and-run?
The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...
New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...
The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...
One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted with dust, forming the minerals that now make up about 80% of Bennu. Certain ...
The spacecraft will study the solar system's edge, magnetic fields in interplanetary space, and remnants of exploded stars.
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