Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in ...

"The data from the termination shock encounter will be a treasure trove for space physicists worldwide who are eager to ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...