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

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a ...

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

When scaled accurately, the distances in our solar system are so vast that planets appear incredibly far apart. Voyager 1, ...

The Solar System is much more than a collection of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. It is our home in the cosmos. The Solar System's only star, which we call the Sun, plays a role in nearly ...