JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

The solar system has always been fascinating for people. For years, people have been trying to understand the vast space that ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...