As the next generation of giant, high-powered observatories begin to come online, a new study suggests that their instruments may...
The spinning, solar-powered spacecraft will take another look of the fiery Jovian moon on July 30. When NASA’s Juno mission...
Earth is truly unique among our solar system’s planets. It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is...
Eager scientists and a gleaming lab awaits. A sample from the asteroid Bennu, which could be key to understanding the...
A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the MPIA-led MINDS research collaboration discovered water in the inner region of a disk...
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Imperial College London have spotted a “retired” asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star passing...
Wayward asteroids present a real collision hazard to Earth. Scientists estimate that an asteroid measuring several miles across smashed into...
As a new space race heats up, two researchers from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas and...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth’s sister planet has...
New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets—worlds that drift through space untethered to...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found the possible “sibling” of a planet orbiting a distant star....
