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

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

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...

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

LONDON — Japan is on track to beam solar power from space to Earth next year ... wean the world off fossil fuels amid the intensifying battle against climate change. Speaking at the ...

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have ... circular orbit of Earth. Detecting these planets ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Oumuamua has left our solar system, but its legacy lives on ... Sound of a meteorite hitting Earth captured for first time I'm a sommelier. I found 7 of the best cabernet sauvignons at the ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But astronomers have spent the better part of a century ...

The scenario also could support Pluto's active geology and possible subsurface ocean, despite its location at the frozen edge of the solar system. "We think the Earth-Moon system initiated when a ...

and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different?

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.