The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
“Our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt long appeared to ... for objects was complicated by being located in front of the dense background of the galaxy’s center. But now that it’s located in ...
Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...
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.
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, pulling data from its Solar Orbiter probe, which it runs with NASA.