Researchers probe the geochemistry of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and water worlds to understand our home and plan for future ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has come within mere miles of Kamo'oalewa, one of the Earth's seven mysterious "quasi-moons." ...

Minerals are typically formed when molten rock, or magma, cools, or by separating out of mineral-rich water, such as that in ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya ...

A new Southwest Research Institute-led study proposes a solution to a longstanding puzzle in planetary science: What caused ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the ...

Scientists have long relied on chemical traces locked inside ancient rocks to piece together the story of early life. Fossils ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back the first-ever close-up image of Earth's rare quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa, an asteroid that scientists suspect could be a fragment of the Moon.

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

A PRL study has linked Chandrayaan-3's Shiv Shakti soil readings with the lunar meteorite ALHA 81005. The match offers fresh ...

JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be a hydrogen-rich lava world with an atmosphere tied to its molten interior.