Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...
For millions of years, a tiny icy fragment wandered through space—like a sealed bottle drifting across a cosmic ocean. This ...
The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...
The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was ...
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...
The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system. Despite some ...
When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...
There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.
Auburn University physicists have detected water activity in comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time hydroxyl gas, water's ...
Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...
Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.