Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

I Atlas is a newly discovered interstellar comet traveling through our solar system at a record breaking speed of about ...

Among the eight planets in the solar system, Jupiter is definitely the 'big guy'; it weighs more than the other seven ...

Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Entering a certain laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a giant slingshot-like impact experiment device stands out prominently. The metallic tracks gleam with a cold light, and various ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected Bennu’s samples in 2020 during a swift touch-and-go. The material contains ancient stardust, interstellar organic matter, and minerals formed from melted ice ...

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as familiar with. Scientists think they understand how the most important moon ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials show.

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