NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set to fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20 in a key rehearsal for its primary mission to ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

NASA has recently identified an unidentified object orbiting the Sun, sparking intrigue and speculation within the scientific community. This enigmatic body exhibits unusual characteristics that ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected potential biosignatures—DMS and DMDS—in the atmosphere of ocean-covered exoplanet K2-18b, 120 light-years ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

Three Tucson scientists are featured in "Planetary Defenders," a new NASA documentary that premieres Wednesday about the ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep ...

New research has revealed why carbonaceous asteroids, some of the most chemically primitive materials in the solar system, ...