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

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

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

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

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the atmospheric origin of exoplanet GJ 1214 b and its results challenges ...

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 ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

We found rare specimens, like a pallasite meteorite, which reveals details about major collisions in solar system history.