NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Astronomers have revealed the potential impact area of a 'city-killer' asteroid that has a slight chance of hitting Earth on ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

New research has revealed that Hot Jupiters do not always push away or destroy nearby planets during their migration. This ...

An international team of researchers clocked WASP-127b's speedy winds using the VLT's CRIRES+ instrument. Short for "Cryogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph," CRIRES+ allows ...

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will be headed when it launches in 2028 in search of past life on Mars. It now ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.