A new type of exoplanet has been discovered ... and giving scientists a tempting window into the otherworldly diversity of planets beyond our Solar System. Enaiposha, discovered in 2009, has piqued ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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.

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

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

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

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.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

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

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

“We knew that second that we found it [Eris] that our concept of the solar system was going to have to change,” says Brown. “We were either going to have to add new planets or subtract on ...