Ancient Asteroid Unlocks 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Secrets of the Solar System
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System
Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...
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Ancient asteroid grains reveal hidden magnetic past of our solar system
They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field. Interestingly, this study provides the first evidence of the likely ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to visit 150M-year-old asteroid next month
NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...
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Our Solar System
His tone was reverent. “We think this is the primordial, unaltered material that everything formed from in the solar system.” Comet DustIn a NASA clean room a scientist examines traps ...
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Bombardment of the early Solar System
Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions ... The scars of this geologic violence are evident today in the ancient cratered terrains of planetary surfaces.