Nestled among the vast clouds of star-forming regions like this one lie potential clues about the formation of our own...
The Solar System is positively lousy with magnetic fields. They drape around (most of) the planets and their moons, which...
The chance of asteroid Bennu colliding with Earth by the year 2300 CE is a little higher than we thought....
Roughly 66 million years ago, a massive object smashed into Earth just off the cost of the Yucatán Peninsula, bring...
The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes...
Two spacecraft are set to swoop past Venus within hours of each other this week, using the maneuver to do...
In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it seems two interplanetary visitors have made themselves at home. 203 Pompeja...
A star just 35 light-years away has been found to host a number of rocky exoplanets, and one that has...
Exoplanets are tricksy little beasts. As they are very small, very dim, and very far away, seeing them directly is...
Pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Yes, water found in nature conducts electricity – but that’s because of the...
An international team of scientists led by a prominent Harvard astronomer announced a new initiative Monday to look for evidence...
Astronomers have discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede for the first time. Ganymede, the...
