Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests. The ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The moon has “many engagements” with the planets in February, NASA said in its monthly update ... in the night sky along with many of our solar system’s planets. The easiest to spot is ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

A new type of exoplanet has ... upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the otherworldly diversity of planets beyond our Solar ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...