Scientists have long thought that our solar system’s ocean worlds, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, may...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles...
Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals...
Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration...
The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected by scientists from the CNRS, together with...
An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than...
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago...
A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery...
Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about primitive materials from exoplanetary...
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our...
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on...
