and emphasized the importance of SDO in our solar early warning system. In a lot of ways, SDO has its roots in the earlier Solar and Heliospheric Observer, or SOHO, the wildly successful ESA solar ...

In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

Things were very different back then. We used to think the early solar system looked a bit like a dartboard, with concentric rings of material orbiting our sun. But a team of researchers now ...

The Late Heavy Bombardment sequence from the Two Sisters film depicts a cataclysmic event in the life of the early Solar System, during which over a third of Mars’s surface was obliterated.

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...

Not only is the meteorite beautiful, it contains information about our own planet’s early history, from the very beginning of the solar system. And at over 4.5 billion years old, it’s the oldest ...

This also presents opportunities for a close flyby mission to study YR4 up close, thus providing insight into the early solar system. In a recent paper, researchers Adam Hibberd and Marshall ...