Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

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

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

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.

This discovery provides a new insight into water activity during the earliest times in our solar system. But the presence of salt minerals is significant for another reason. On Earth, these ...

The researchers were inspired by a puzzling fact: many Solar Systems like our own are predicted to have super-Earth planets relatively close to their sun, so it's rather strange that ours doesn't.

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Simpson explained, “If it’s one or two Earth masses, which is still a pretty big planet, our inner Solar System would still remain quite nice.” However, the situation becomes far more ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...