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

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

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...

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

Our solar system, a cosmic ballet of planets held together by gravity and inertia, is uniquely structured compared to many ...

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

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 ...

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.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The topics of interest include: • The role of solar wind fluctuations in the generation of magnetospheric waves and their effects on radiation belts and ionospheric ... Ionosphere-Thermosphere system, ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better understanding of the past.