Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Eight planets, hundreds of moons, hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets orbiting our Sun make up our ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...