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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...