Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

We're starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth exoplanet discovery in the LHS 1903 system made by ESA's CHEOPS mission ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Researchers analyzed 28 Ryugu asteroid samples and found preserved magnetic signals that record early solar system magnetic fields and water-driven alteration on its parent body.

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at ...

A small, round piece of asteroid Ryugu (sample #91), called “S-lunar,” contains tiny particles (less than 1 mm) that will allow planetary scientists to study the magnetic signature of the early solar ...

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do. Reading time 3 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ryugu asteroid samples preserve magnetic signals from the early solar system, revealing clues about the solar nebula. (CREDIT: ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...