NASA says after dark, throughout the month of January, you’ll be able to see Venus, Saturn Jupiter and Mars. Venus and Saturn will appear in the southwest of the sky, Jupiter will appear overhead and ...

The study of exoplanets has come a long way since the first detection of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun in 1995.

Our skies are putting up quite a show. A rare planetary alignment is happening this year, capturing the attention of ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

January brings a stunning spectacle for star watchers, a rare celestial alignment wherein several planets appear across the ...

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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Glavin, senior scientist for samples return at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “This is all very ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...