Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

The discovery of planets outside our solar system has reshaped humanity’s understanding of the universe. Since the ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.

The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this ...

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...

New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io in 2024. The extraterrestrial ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

Now that we’ve found more dark comets, we’ve noticed that they come in two flavors. Outer dark comets are larger – about a mile wide in size – and on more elliptical orbits farther out in the solar ...