A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that ...

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Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...