NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute Southern Pass (2000): En route to Saturn, Cassini flew by the south pole of Jupiter, picking up a velocity boost from the planet’s gravity field. Jupiter’s ...

These planets aren’t big enough to turn into stars ... have been confirmed thanks to observations made by the James Webb space telescope. By looking at the brown dwarf, astronomers were able ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe.

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Rare planetary alignments, known as major conjunctions, have coincided with significant events in human history. The recent ...

Since its launch in late 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has raised the possibility that we could detect signs of ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes Shi En Kim With no conclusive laboratory results, researchers ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

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 asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

It’s been a while since our planet was rocked by a sucker punch from outer space, but the ancient microbes who jump started ...

NASA is exploring whether a planet’s moon can support life, and a promising sign for U.S.-China relations arrived in ...