The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Alien hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb continues to rail against the idea that our newest interstellar is merely a comet.

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

The appeal is straightforward. Solar panels on Earth depend on weather. They shut down at night, sulk under clouds, and fade ...

Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that ...

Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...