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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers groundbreaking insight into a new type of planet described as unlike ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

New research suggests the planet is much more similar to Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. But since GJ ... is a collaborative project between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency ...

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

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

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

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...