On September 23, the sample container landed in the Utah desert, carrying around 120 grams of material from Bennu. From there ...

Tiny bits of rock recorded magnetic forces in the early solar system before the sun fully formed. Scientists recently figured ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Before Earth or any other planet existed, the young sun was surrounded by a wide disk of gas and dust. Tiny pieces of ...

What processes are responsible for the first planets in our solar system forming? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to addres | Space ...