A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

In the future, if asteroid mining ever became necessary as well as economically ... Eros became the first near-Earth asteroid to be discovered when a German astronomer spotted it in 1898 (Credit ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Astronomers have performed a multiwavelength ... Moreover, they computed age and metallicity, as well as obtained core and tidal radii of the investigated candidate open clusters.

Kornmesser Water ... as well as the evolution of the cosmos. Observatories including the Webb Space Telescope are critical to this mission, as each observation helps astronomers peel back ...

allowing astronomers to extrapolate the presence of one or more orbiting exoplanets, as well as their mass. Applying this technique over a span of three years, the team identified four sub-Earth ...

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins seemingly took interest in the capsule that dropped out of the sky, circling and surfacing as ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

Mining the moon for water, helium-3, and rare earth elements could become a multibillion-dollar industry in the near future, but astronomers warn it risks coming at the expense of scientific ...

“Most comets are active around 3 to 5 AU,” Gröller tells Astronomy. That’s the distance where the Sun’s radiation can begin to trigger water-ice ... job is finding near-Earth asteroids ...