Stone samples brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu have had their elemental composition analyzed using an artificially generated muon...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only...
New research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters suggests that Mars was born wet, with a dense atmosphere allowing...
NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021....
The moon’s craters preserve billions of years of history. Scientists have learned about the conditions of our early solar system...
by Margaret W. Carruthers, Space Telescope Science Institute NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of...
The search for extraterrestrial life has just become more interesting as a team of scientists, including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr....
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022,...
With data from its closest pass of the sun yet, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has found compelling clues as...
Strange diamonds from an ancient dwarf planet in our solar system may have formed shortly after the dwarf planet collided...
For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem regarding the weather in outer space: At unpredictable times,...
The wall of dense gas and dust resembles a massive winged creature, its glowing maw lit by a bright star...
