New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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

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

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

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Origins of Lunar Water and Its Connection to Earth's Early History Dec. 19 ... years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...