Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

The planets and asteroids that originated in the Solar System emerged from a thin disk of gas and dust that once orbited the Sun.

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Rowan University geology chair Harold Connolly, Jr., Ph.D., who serves as mission sample scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Start with the new Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Second Edition. This self-contained reference follows the trail blazed by the bestselling first edition. It provides a framework for understanding ...

The latest research on asteroid Bennu has revealed its heterogeneous origin and a parent world with flowing water, adding to ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

Astronomers believe they have discovered a fast-moving comet that Saturn sent careening out of our solar system at a speed faster than fighter jets.