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

Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

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 ...

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

These tiny spheres were formed under extreme conditions during the early solar system's chaotic environment. The study conducted by Japan’s Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

Chondrules form when planetesimals collide, causing water to vaporize and create steam explosions. These explosions fragmented molten silicate into tiny droplets that later solidified.

Orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system are pristine remnants from its beginning. These unique objects, called ...

Weiss says that if the solar nebula was around in the first 4 million years of solar system formation, this would give support to the core accretion scenario, which is generally favored among ...

The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

A young planet has been spotted outside our Solar System, captured by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The rare image shows ...