The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Astronomers have identified a vast population of potential protoplanetary disks within the turbulent central molecular zone (CMZ) near the Milky Way’s galactic center. This groundbreaking research, ...

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been ... It'll offer new insight into our own galaxy's history of star formation, ...

This flyby marked a major milestone as Lucy completed its second encounter in its planned 12-year journey across the solar system. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ... to study these time capsules from the ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Eos poses no danger to Earth and the solar system. Because of its proximity ... serves as raw material for new star formation. "When we look through our telescopes, we catch whole solar systems ...

Relics of the solar system’s formation over four billion years ago, TNOs offer researchers the unique ability to study the conditions before Earth and the other planets were born. The researchers ...

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.