NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third ...

The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System Feb. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic ...

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...