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 ...

“The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is immense,” commented Tom Statler, NASA program scientist for the Lucy mission, ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

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A recent theory has emerged suggesting that the answer to Mercury’s unusually large metallic core may lie in the early history of our solar system. This theory proposes that a soft collision between ...

Where do we come from? How did our planet form? How do we know about the history of our solar system? You can explore these universal questions in the Moon, Meteorite and Solar System Gallery. Earth’s ...