Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and rock. For years, scientists wondered how these delicate two-lobed shapes ...

Starship’s heavy lift capacity, in orbit refueling, and potential aerobraking role could significantly accelerate a long-awaited mission to Uranus.

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Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists Around two million years ago, Earth underwent a series of temperature fluctuations ...

In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...

The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...

Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...