TL;DR: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed grains the size of a single bacterium, which are expected to eventually form planets. The world's most powerful space telescope has captured ...

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

Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would explain the peculiarities of these four planets' paths. Prevailing solar ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

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

Neutrinos, often called 'ghost particles', are subatomic particles that travel through space but barely interact with ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...