AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

In fact, we didn’t know for sure that any planets at all existed beyond our solar system ... Gunn, NASA “I haven’t gotten around to putting this up,” Seager says, unrolling a poster ...

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

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

making it the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Now, Io has achieved a unique record: a huge eruption detected by NASA's Juno spacecraft, the most powerful ever seen on this moon.

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.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...