The samples, which were scooped up by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a brief yet dramatic touchdown on Bennu in 2020, ...

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex-39A, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 23 at ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

Earth gazed into the cosmos, wondering if she would ever get a new planetary neighbor. To her astonishment, one day... it happened. This video explores the breathtaking and chaotic consequences of a ...

Scientists have discovered that meteorites on Earth, containing tiny molten droplets called chondrules, reveal the formation of Jupiter 4.6 billion years ago.

On Dec. 17, 2018, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced that 2018 VG18, nicknamed ‘Farout’, ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...