Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system ... like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered ... Ancient Hot Water on Mars Points to Habitable ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Occasionally, Jupiter's massive gravitational force pulls some asteroids from the belt, sending them toward the inner solar system. These asteroids sometimes enter Earth's vicinity in what is ...

Scientists Predict Devastation if Asteroid Bennu Strikes Earth in 2182 By Will Dunham ... body that had formed near the dawn of the solar system roughly 4.5 billion years ago.

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make ... That was in 1961, which he points out is the same year ...

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

An objection to this theory has been raised by Moulton, who points out that the ... formed from the earth by solar tidal disruption, this method being abnormal in the system, and the later ...

NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ... the gravitational pulls of the Sun and the solar system’s planets to work out the possible future orbits of an asteroid.

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...