Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

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

"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...