Discovery of oxygen raises new questions about how solar system formed. In this undated photo, Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P. ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 — -- The European Space ...
'We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to where the sun and planets were forming.' When you purchase through links on ...
A large asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Neptune and Jupiter is an intriguing oddball as far as cosmic rocks go. Chiron, as the strange centaur is called, is what astronomers call a minor ...
A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...
New studies of trans-Neptunian objects reveal how their colors and surface reflectance today are linked to their formation locations in the early solar system and more. ORLANDO, Dec. 19, 2024 – New ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...