Nearly 47 years ago, two NASA spacecrafts were bound for one of the grandest journeys across our solar system to fly by and learn about our outer gas giants.The ...
When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...
Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...
The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to capture unprecedented details of the extensive debris ...
A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.
"This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...
Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...
Astronomers have pointed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble at nearby star Vega. Surprisingly, they haven't found ...
On Oct. 14 NASA’s Europa Clipper was launched from Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa. It will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. Europa is believed to have a subsurface ocean with ...
Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined. Thus, astrophysicists can now detect exoplanets still nestled within the dust cloud that witnessed their birth, right ...
Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...