Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

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 ...

Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

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

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

F or the first time, researchers have dated the formation of Jupiter by studying tiny, bead-like spheres found preserved in ...

This is like getting a baby picture of our own solar system,' says Gabriel Weible, University of Arizona graduate student who contributed to research - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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

Jupiter's formation disrupted planetesimal orbits, causing high-speed collisions that created molten rock droplets, or ...