Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Leading scientists have made an exciting discovery in the depths of space that has been hailed as "invaluable" in the search for signs of life outside our solar system. A planet has been ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found ... our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system.

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic ... and shows the planet has complex weather systems like Earth and other planets in our solar system. "Understanding the dynamics of these exoplanets helps ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.