Japan's mission to Mars' moons could answer a decades old question dividing the origins of Phobos and Deimos between two ...

Lucy is more than 550 million miles from Earth as of October 16, and it's due to make its flyby of one of the Trojan ...

The MMX mission will study Mars’ moons and help scientists learn more about their origins, with support from NASA.

Bennu can preserve that record because it is a highly primitive asteroid. Its material dates back to the birth of the Solar System around 4.5 billion years ago and has changed little since then, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse of the kinds of violent collisions that may have shaped our own solar system, including the giant impact thought to have created the ...

What can brown dwarfs teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study accepted by The Astrophysical Journal hopes to | Space ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has set a new record for the longest distance traveled on the surface of another planet, the ...

Now, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are peering into other young stellar systems to catch similar ...

Harvard geoscientists reported that organic matter harvested from certain meteorites bears chemical traces of “primitive ...

Seoul National University astronomer traces crystalline silicate transport to comets and planetary building blocks over 4.6 ...

In the early history of our solar system, scientists theorize that a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant ...