The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

Using data collected by the spacecraft’s LEISA spectral imager, researchers are uncovering the true nature of Nix’s surface coarse, pure water ice that behaves like rock due to the extreme cold of ...