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

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

The upcoming planetary parade is an astronomical event that occurs only once in several years, making it a rare and unmissable opportunity for stargazers.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants combined.

An unidentified interstellar object, possibly eight times Jupiter’s mass, may have disrupted the solar system’s planets.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...