In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

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

Samples of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu, located near Earth, contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

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A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Hot Jupiters are gas giants with masses often many times that of the Jupiter in our solar system. They also orbit ... clouds of gas and dust called proto-planetary disks that whirl around stellar ...

When proto-Charon impacts proto-Pluto ... Perhaps there is a lot of kissing going on in the outer solar system. A large moon produces a large gravitational pull on a planet.

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided ... Pluto and the proto-Charon actually became temporarily stuck together, rotating as a single ...

Chief of The Economist's annual forecasting publication, presented the trends that are expected to dominate the world in 2025 ...