Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
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 ...
Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
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.