In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ...

New research based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the dwarf planet Ceres may have once possessed a deep, ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

An asteroid called 2023 CX1 underwent a single explosion, hinting that it had an unusual structure that might be more ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk could be in line for a payout of $1 trillion if his electric car company meets a series of extremely aggressive targets over the next 10 years, according to documents released by ...