The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Known as the "Parade of Planets," the celestial event will feature appearances from Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.
Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...