Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

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Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades – and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus’ upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

Astronomers found other KBOs with a similar mass to ... giving rise to its informal designation as the solar system’s ‘tenth planet.’ Although not a planet, Pluto does have enough ...