In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

ASA selected two missions to explore the earliest history of our solar system, a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our Sun. The Discovery missions Psyche and Lucy were selected from ...

16 Psyche the large metallic asteroid ideal for space mining. NASA imagery was used for this composite from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed rapidly in a chaotic disk at the dawn of the solar system ...

In this video, we explore the entire 13.8 billion year history of our Universe compressed into a single calendar year. Key ...

Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by ...

In May 2024, part of the sun exploded. The sun is an immense ball of superheated gas called plasma. Because the plasma is conductive, magnetic fields loop out of the solar surface. Since different ...