The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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This possible discovery only highlights how much more there is to learn about our Solar System beyond the reaches of Neptune. With the James Webb Space Telescope in orbit at Lagrange point 2 ...

By detecting frozen water in a distant protoplanetary disk located 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Nebula, JWST has unlocked new possibilities for life beyond our Solar System. The detection ...

Pluto, our sun's most remote and mysterious planet, may once a satellite of Neptune. Current theories about its origin provide new clues to the genesis of the solar system By Owen Gingerich ...

If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably be done via spectroscopy of an earth-like planet's atmosphere as it passes in front of its parent star.

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.