The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

From planets that rain diamonds to moons with hidden oceans, the Solar System holds more mysteries than most realize. These ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Many smaller outer solar system objects appear to have orbits that are aligned in certain mysterious ways; the simplest explanation is that their motions are influenced by another, as-yet-unseen ...