Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a ...

Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

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

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...