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

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

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 ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...

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

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 ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar ... system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu.