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

Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... the most ancient remnants of an early-formed planet in the early solar system," Ben Rider-Stokes, a post-doctoral researcher ...

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

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

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

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

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets — but only one world is known to harbor life. Scientists have long debated whether Earth is truly unique. Perhaps our planet just ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...