What astronomers call a “parade of planets” will be visible in the early evening sky all month. Mark Pitts is an assistant ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert WichTitusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have variable ...

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

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

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

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

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.