Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Origins of Lunar Water and Its Connection to Earth's Early History Dec ... reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists ...

“This discovery reshapes our understanding of how planets acquired their ingredients.” How MVEs Went Missing Previously, many scientists believed that MVEs were diminished on Earth because they never ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

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

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

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

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System ... understand the early universe and the chances of life hiding elsewhere in the Solar System (and beyond).