An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

High solar activity levels have historically been linked to warmer temperatures, on average, across Earth, according to the ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

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 ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

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 ...