Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

When we look at the planets aligning, we are reminded that the universe operates in perfect harmony, following the same ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The spacecraft completed two very close ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...