An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

[Photo/Agencies] LOS ANGELES -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset ... University of Arizona in Tucson, told Live Science. In the paper, the researchers ...

“Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” notes Nicky Fox, head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified flickering coronal loops in the sun's atmosphere that precede large solar flares. These variations in extreme ...