The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the...
Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small...
A spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes passed closer to Mercury than originally planned overnight after thruster problems delayed the...
Mars was once a very wet planet, as is evident in its surface geological features. Scientists know that over the...
Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the...
New evidence suggests that billions of years ago, a star may have passed very close to our solar system. As...
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The...
Using MeerKAT data, an international team including astronomers from MPIfR (Bonn, Germany) has compiled the largest catalog of radio sources...
Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher has realized that...
Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has provided crucial data to answer the decades-long question of where the energy comes from to...
Just how dark is deep space? Astronomers may have finally answered this long-standing question by tapping into the capabilities and...
