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.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven ...

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition ...

The alignment of six planets will be visible in the night sky in January, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). In 24 Oras’ “Kuya Kim ...

The cosmic element offers valuable insights into the early formation of the solar system. Due to its unique ... or four billion years older than our planet is pretty awesome, I think,’ Dermot ...

That’s because Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by ... that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...