For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...
It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the early Solar System.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
A powerful solar storm lit skies far beyond the poles, revealing how Earth’s magnetic shield protects the planet during ...
Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...
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The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...
Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...