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 ...

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

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

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

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

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 ...

Preparing for an interstellar mission is going to be “one of the most challenging problems that humanity is ever going to ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

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

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.