Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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.

Researchers from Curtin University have made a groundbreaking discovery after analyzing some of the most well-preserved ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of ... OSIRIS-REx mission to the ancient asteroid Bennu. Asteroid Bennu is thought to ...