Michael R. Meyer 1, Lynne A. Hillenbrand 2, Dana Backman 3, Steve Beckwith 4,5, Jeroen Bouwman 6, Tim Brooke 2, John Carpenter 2, Martin Cohen 7, Stephanie Cortes 1, Nathan Crockett 8, Uma Gorti 9, ...

On September 3, scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid have discovered a variety of unusual materials, some of which existed even before the formation of the Sun. Three recent papers ...

During the first billion years of Solar System evolution, following planetary accretion, the rate of impact cratering was substantially higher than over the past 3.5 Gyr. However, the causes ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution.

The researchers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, to identify this very young planet, named WISPIT 2b, which orbits a ...

Astronomers have traced the evolution of the solar system back to its cosmic womb, before the sun and planets were born.

A comprehensive analysis of 16 particles from the asteroid Ryugu revealed many insights into the processes that operated before, during and after the formation of the solar system, with some still ...

Ultimately, without a time machine, we will never fully recover the precise history of our solar system's formation, so we will never be entirely sure what role giant impacts had in the ...