Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Could extraterrestrial life exist beyond Mars?  Join NASA’s search for alien life in the outer solar system as we explore ...

those that are beyond the eighth planet, with highly “tilted” orbits compared to the ecliptic plane. This seemed odd and illogical as when the Solar system formed, it would be expected that ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...

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

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...