NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...
While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more ... billion-year-old-story—and this one’s a real doozy. After close examination of the ...
The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...
A breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial life may be on the horizon as astronomers have uncovered 85 potential planets outside our Solar System that ... project was a real team effort ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.