This Small, Icy World Could Rewrite What We Know About Our Solar System's Past

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...
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Stardust: The NASA Mission That Brought Back Particles From "The Very Origins Of The Solar System"

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS ...
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The Georgia Meteorite That Carries the Solar System’s Earliest History

“It’s older than the Earth.” In a mere five words, planetary geologist Scott Harris summed up the staggering nature of a humble, small rock that tore through a Georgia home this summer. The 23-gram ...
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Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coronal mass ejections from the Sun can cause geomagnetic storms that may damage technology on Earth. NASA/GSFC/SDO In May 2024, ...
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Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar system

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These ...
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Exploring the solar system : the history and science of planetary exploration / edited by Roger D. Launius

Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...
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Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Sun is an immense ball of superheated gas called plasma. Because the plasma is ...