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

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

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Three new papers into the samples brought back from the Bennu asteroid were published recently, shedding more light into the ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers. Conventional ...

OSIRIS-REx reveals gray asteroids reflect red or blue light differently due to sulfide minerals, offering clues to rocky body ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...

A sample of the Bennu asteroid is making headlines two years after the sample was delivered. Bennu is rich in carbon, ...

Our understanding of comets is intimately linked to knowing our solar system’s early composition and the evolution of conditions for atmospheres and life to arise, the researchers said.

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that ...