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

The latest research on asteroid Bennu has revealed its heterogeneous origin and a parent world with flowing water, adding to ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

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

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

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

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

The outer reaches of our solar system just got a little more crowded, with astronomers spotting a previously unseen moon ...

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...