Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.

The appeal is straightforward. Solar panels on Earth depend on weather. They shut down at night, sulk under clouds, and fade ...

An interstellar object detected on July 1 by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System project has sparked debate ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

An encounter with 'something outside of the solar system' may have triggered an ice age on Earth News By Robert Lea published June 13, 2024 ...

Here's how the Earth could theoretically leave the solar system.

A study simulated what would happen if a super-Earth orbited in the middle of our solar system, and the results are chaotic.

Cosmochemists now present the most comprehensive comparison to date of the isotopic composition of Earth, Mars and pristine building material from the inner and outer Solar System.

Earth is believed to have formed partly from carbonaceous meteorites, which are thought to come from outer main-belt asteroids. Telescopic observations of outer main-belt asteroids suggest that ...