Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Scientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the ...

A chance to unpick the secrets of the dawn of the universe could be threatened by private companies mining on the Moon, a ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

“By detecting the region outside of our solar system, by detecting actual galactic matter, we can start to unravel a whole ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

What if invisible black holes were quietly passing through our solar system without us even noticing? While that might sound like a plot from a sci-fi ... Continue Reading → ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...