THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

After 45 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 & 2 are still making history! These legendary probes have traveled beyond our solar ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

It formed in the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Despite its great distance from the sun, Bennu’s parent body remained warm because it contained radioactive elements.

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

which extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: A region of the solar system beyond Neptune, populated with many small icy bodies and dwarf planets. This Nature Research ...