For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The ...

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 more are waiting to be discovered? New images from the Hubble ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had ...

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

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...

I/ATLAS, interstellar comet or alien spacecraft, to fly by Mars next month, giving European and international spacecraft a rare chance to observe an object from beyond the solar system.

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

On September 3, scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid have discovered a variety of unusual materials, some of which existed even before the formation of the Sun. Three recent papers ...

REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...