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

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

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

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...

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 ...

On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...

meaning they are pristine samples of the material from which the Solar System formed. The implications extend beyond our ...

in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But astronomers have spent the better part of a century wondering if there’s anything beyond our cosmic ...

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 ...

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.