Using new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an...
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...
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...