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 ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

On September 4-5, during the Third International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) held in Hefei, Anhui, ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

The recent discovery of a planet with rings larger than those of Saturn is a game-changer in our understanding of celestial ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a massive outflow of hot gases from a large star. This stellar jet spans 8 ...

Separately, the NASA program of humans in space began as a cold war effort but has evolved significantly, especially since the end of the Shuttle era. The short-term goal for humans is embodied in the ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

The evolution of Ryugu. Diagram to show how the researchers think the evolution of Ryugu played out over at least a billion ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...