Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that...
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission—and to prepare...
Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over the best route home, scientists from the University of...
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus...
To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won’t work. Scientists need to use many telescopes...
Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters...
Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in...
When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back...
A research team led by Dr. Serge Krasnokutski from the Astrophysics Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at...
A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)...
Evidence from the fragments of a destroyed asteroid suggests that the shift in the positions of the giant planets in...
A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost...