Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

It probably spent nearly all of the past 4.5 billion years in a deep ... Stardust indicate the solar system was turned inside out during infancy, many scientists now think it also went through ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years ... to the chaotic early solar system. During the formative years of the solar system, planets ...

An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our solar system some 4 billion years ago and warped the orbits of many planets. More NASA, ESA, Caltech / ISTOCK ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system ... atmosphere is now so thin. But in the ancient past—up until about 4.12 to 4.14 billion years ago ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it ... rocky debris left over from the era of planet formation, 4.5 billion years ago ...