In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total, six planets will be visible ...
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.
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...
Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.
The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...