Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 ... of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs.

In 2018, after six decades of dreaming, a revolutionary spacecraft launched on a mission unlike any before: to dive into the ...

Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Located approximately 19.7 light-years away from Earth in the Eridanus constellation, the exoplanet is ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

That is why it is a “sub-Neptune”, a class of exoplanet that does not occur in our Solar System. To reveal its secrets ... into their formation and evolution (just like the strange object which was ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

They are remnants from the early solar system and provide valuable insights into its formation and evolution. Recent research has focused on understanding the dynamics of these celestial objects ...