“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...