Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
This week, a mouse with two dads has survived into adulthood for the first time, if you’ve ever asked someone a question with the sole intention that they ask you the same question back, there’s now a ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.