The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Six planets are still aligned in London skies tonight (Sunday, January 26) and will remain so until about mid-February. So if ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

In this video, I set out on an extraordinary mission to discover a new planet. With the odds stacked against me, I rented a ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The difference in the distance from the sun at these two points is only 0.10 AU for Venus ... according to the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Dwarf planet Pluto, on the other hand, has a fairly ...