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...
An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has for the first time directly detected...
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...
Our solar system and everything within it—including the Earth—will look very different when the sun dies. But whether the planet...