Planet AF Lep b is a world of firsts. In 2023, it was the lowest-mass planet outside our solar system...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a...
A Canadian-led international study has revealed new insights into the atmosphere of GJ 9827 d—an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren’t as many as we thought. Using...
NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will...
A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed...
As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet’s...
For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the...
Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a...
The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars’ farthest...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed new details about Earth’s core-mantle boundary and similar...
New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today...
