Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

It was discovered in 2009, with a mass and radius that put it somewhere between Earth ... because we have nothing directly analogous to them here in our Solar System. Both super-Earths and ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...