THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source of speculation for over a hundred years; but, in spite of the attention that has been devoted to it, no really ...

Researchers at Curtin University are uncovering the secrets of Asteroid Bennu’s ancient fragments, which have journeyed ...

Asteroids are like fossils from the beginnings of the solar system, and it is suspected that ... will tell us about the Earth’s past or the origin of life, the probe will already be preparing ...

Scientists thought it might be nothing more than a hunk of rock on the outskirts of the solar system. But when NASA's New Horizons mission performed history's first flyby of the Pluto system on ...

Many of the asteroids in the solar system melted early on in their history to form an iron core and rocky mantle. During melting the heavier material, metal, sinks to the centre while the lighter rock ...

M eteorites, captivating cosmic relics, provide a rare insight into the origins and evolution of our solar system. More than just rocks from the heavens, they are invaluable scientific treasures ...

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved from a monstrosity of gas and dust into the protosolar ...

What is the universe made of? How did it begin? How has it evolved over the 13.8 billion years since its origin? These are some of the questions addressed by cosmology, the study of the universe as a ...

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.

Data from NASA's Dawn space probe calls into question assumptions about the origin of Ceres in the outer solar system. The ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...