The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

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

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

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

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

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 ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

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

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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