Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...
A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...
Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on our planet, explore the wonders of our star's domain, or venture into the ...
Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...
New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the first telescope specifically engineered to identify habitable, Earth-like ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct look at material within a disk encircling a massive exoplanet ...
Unlike the Moon, which is gravitationally bound to our planet, 2025 PN7 shares an orbit around the Sun that closely mirrors ...
In a secluded corner of the Lynx constellation, just 18 light-years from our planet, astronomers have found a stunning ...
Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, ...
Scientists for years have argued over drastic action to cool a warming world. Among the most widely debated is stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI— injecting reflective particles into the upper ...
Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...