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 ...

In this video, we explore the entire 13.8 billion year history of our Universe compressed into a single calendar year. Key ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A timeline of the solar system etched into a concrete sidewalk. Included are drawings of the planets depicting their positions; the traveling time of sunlight to the planets and the revolutions of the ...

Launius, Roger D., editor. 2013. Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. In Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and ...

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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 ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have identified a distant small body beyond Pluto, adding a fourth member to the rare group of objects known as sednoids. A sednoid is a rare type of ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...