Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

That's when NASA's Genesis sample return capsule slammed ... oxygen and nitrogen isotopes in chondrite meteorites and inner solar system planetary materials, "we now know that the standard model ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified flickering coronal loops in the sun's atmosphere that precede large solar flares. These variations in extreme ...

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system ... who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission ...

CAPE CANAVERAL - A proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis to relocate NASA's headquarters from Washington D.C. to the Kennedy Space Center has drawn mixed reactions. Speaking to a crowd at the Kennedy ...

head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology ...

NASA noted that it would not be a straightforward reuse of the sky crane technology – the system would need to be 20 percent bigger than the one used to land the rovers. Some decisions have, however, ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.

better understand how the solar system came to be, and how others may be created deep in the cosmos. But NASA has never tried going this close to the sun, which has somewhat stunted research.