Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

Avi Loeb shares the story of how a Tesla Roadster had some astronomers convinced for a time that they had discovered a new ...

The brand-new Sherwood Observatory, Planetarium and Science Centre was officially opened by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called a heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of a line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been the biggest storm in the solar system for centuries. But lately, it seems to be shrinking..

"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear to line up in the ... This could lead to a series of paintings or a book ...

Founded a little less than three years ago, K2 seeks to disrupt the production of large satellites by focusing on vertical ...