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

Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...

A visitor from beyond the stars has caught NASA’s eye. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, observed between 7 and 15 August, is offering astronomers a rare chance to study material from outside our solar ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

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

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

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

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

A mysterious object hurtling through our solar system has left NASA scientists stunned as it draws closer to Earth. New scans ...

Tracking the object’s orbit also reveals the path it has taken to reach our solar system, said Dr. Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center of Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

NASA Launches 4 Spacecraft to Solve Magnetic Mystery Most known exoplanets exist much closer to our solar system in the Milky Way, making this discovery, which is farther away, significant to ...