Dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, revealing the role ...

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Until now, the timing of the formation of the asteroid, as well as the parent body, itself, had remained uncertain.

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...

In this study, NRM measurements suggest that the observed characteristics of Ryugu particles is a chemical remanent magnetization, likely acquired during growth of framboidal magnetite that occurred ...