Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

“While 3I/ATLAS is a visitor from interstellar space, travelling from outside the Solar System, its behaviour is completely ...

NASA’s historic asteroid experiment has revealed an unexpected outcome. Scientists now report that the Double Asteroid ...

Explore how the violent birth of the Sun 4.6 billion years ago spun a cloud of dust and gas into a protoplanetary disc, ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

A small, round piece of asteroid Ryugu (sample #91), called “S-lunar,” contains tiny particles (less than 1 mm) that will allow planetary scientists to study the magnetic signature of the early solar ...

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

NASA’s DART mission not only altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos but also slightly shifted the asteroid system’s path ...

From Pluto’s tilted orbit to rogue asteroids, discover the chaotic leftovers of solar system formation. This video explains NASA’s DART mission, why some planetary orbits defy predictability, and ...