Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Mundane wayward space rock, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system's latest and only third ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures striking new details of the planet, including rock samples that could return to Earth in future missions.

For the first time in history, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown through a region of the Sun where explosive magnetic ...