The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

On August 8, 2024, the sun emitted a highly-energetic X1.3-class solar flare. X-class flares like this one are incredibly ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...