NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

"It points to a distinct and separate evolutionary path in planetary formation in the early history of our solar system." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...

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 ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

ASA selected two missions to explore the earliest history of our solar system, a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our Sun. The Discovery missions Psyche and Lucy were selected from ...

Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the striking claim in new research tracing when the young planet locked in the chemical makeup that still ...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, Ryugu, and Polana may all be fragments of a common parent body. The paper, ...