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 ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the ...

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

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

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 ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

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

Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...

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 ...