Nasa's Juno Spacecraft has released stunning new images of Jupiter, the largest and oldest planet in our solar system. The ...

An exoplanet in the Trappist star system — a multi-planet star system similar to the solar system and just 39 light-years ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader ...

Dark comets are comets that are so small, fast and/or chemically rare that they are difficult to see from Earth ...

If a future spacecraft can confirm that they are organic, then it would virtually confirm that Ceres is producing these ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA's Voyager mission completed humankind's first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977 ...

NASA's Juno mission has revealed that each of Io's volcanoes is likely fueled by its own magma chamber, not a global magma ocean. This conclusion was drawn from precise gravity measurements during ...

The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas ...

The research team's simulations indicate a 1 in 100 chance that an interstellar visitor could produce the orbits we see today ...

A New Mexico-based astronomer is working to answer the oldest questions about the universe, thanks to multiple grants from ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space ...