New research from the group of MIT Professor Brett McGuire has revealed the presence of a previously unknown molecule in...
Finding water on distant planets and moons in our solar system is a challenge, especially when the instrument is thousands...
Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that...
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus...
Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters...
Although their primary purpose is to look for exoplanets, observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary...
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...
Evidence from the fragments of a destroyed asteroid suggests that the shift in the positions of the giant planets in...
Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has revealed how it was affected by water and repeatedly smashed apart and...
US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter’s icy moons as...