Tiny Grains From Asteroid Bennu Reveal How Jupiter Shaped the Early Solar System
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward asteroid Bennu during a 2020 rehearsal for sample collection. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona…
Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought
Isotope measurements from asteroid Bennu closely match those of asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites, suggesting all…
Early Solar System space rocks had up to 92% rocky chondrules as natural sorting separated them from ice-rich dust; new study finds |
During the Solar System’s first million years, its earliest outer worlds appear to have formed from a carefully…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
Ancient impact with Theia may have brought water and life to Earth
Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the…
In 2015, David Hole’s curiosity about a heavy “gold” rock on his shelf for 17 years revealed a space secret |
David Hole kept a strange rock for years, which led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite. Image…
New simulations reveal the hidden forces shaping ‘snowman’ worlds beyond Neptune
On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two…