A study conducted by scientists at São Paulo State University’s Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin ...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when ...

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Exploding stars, such as this one depicted in an artist’s rendering, are unlikely to be responsible for the origin of radioactive beryllium in the solar system, ORNL scientists found. Scientists have ...

An international team of scientists has examined dust grains gathered by the NASA Stardust spacecraft and brought back to Earth – and has discovered that they originated in the interstellar dust ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Little pieces of the 4.5 billion-year-old Asteroid Bennu are saying a whole lot about the history of the solar system. As the first asteroid samples to return to the U.S. for research, particles from ...

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