The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

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.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

Now, using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ... For example, an automated system could look for brightness changes in coronal loops in real-time images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

"NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying ... processing most near-real-time [Solar Dynamics Observatory ...