Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by ...
Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...
Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in the early solar system. About 4.5 Ga (giga-anum, or billion years ago), as a large disc of dust and ice collapsed around ...
As our solar system formed, tiny particles in the disk around the young Sun gradually grew larger until they became the size of small pebbles. "Once pebbles grow large enough to no longer travel along ...
The Parker Solar Probe captured a coronal mass ejection erupting from the Sun. Screenshot: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/NRL/Guillermo Stenborg and Evangelos Paouris For the past six years, the Parker Solar ...
Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...
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