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

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 ...

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

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

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our ...

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

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

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

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

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object ...

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 ...