Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

When the solar system formed, rocks (and other dense, heavy materials in the dust cloud such as iron and uranium) tended to gather closer to the Sun, and these materials combined together to form ...

The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties ...

The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas ...

scattered through the solar system without a permanent home. Many of these rocks orbit the Sun in an area between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt. They can be very large - the biggest, ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

For spectators, total solar eclipses – such as the one that dazzled millions in April across North America – represent ...