When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

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

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

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.

Six planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are ... On this occasion the searches turned up short. But an alien civilisation looking towards our own Solar System might ...

Six planets will be in alignment during the planet parade: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune won't appear as "bright planets," so you'll need a telescope or ...

To the left of Venus, brighter than the stars but not at the same level as Venus, you'll find Saturn. The two planets will remain visible to the naked eye for about three and a half hours.