Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples of the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu to Earth. Upon examining them, scientists discovered that the asteroid – which existed when the Solar ...

The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information ...

Researchers detail a 2035 Solar Oberth maneuver mission using chemical propulsion to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

Scientists say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...

Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...