Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.
NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...
An upcoming NASA mission will feature a major piece of technology designed by a team of researchers from the University of ...
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...
A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may ...