A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.