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

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

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

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

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

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

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

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...