Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...

Earth will be long gone by then, but new research shows the outer planets will be thrown out too, and a billion times earlier ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

In 2020, a NASA spacecraft swooped in on Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and scooped up rock and dirt from its surface then began the voyage home in May 2021. The spacecraft will eject a capsule full of ...

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study our smallest planetary neighbor ...

In a new study, researchers measured subtle variations in iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in Bennu grains. Their ...

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...