Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

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 ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

Over the last decade, NASA's Kepler space telescope surpassed expectations: it alone has detected several thousand planets, revealing the architecture of exoplanetary systems. Compared to our Solar ...

On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Scientists have known that a magnetic field shaped the inner solar system, where Earth and the terrestrial planets were formed. But it was unclear whether such a magnetic influence extended into ...

ATLAS, discovered in 2023, has made its closest approach to the Sun.According to reports, the long-period comet last visited ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...