The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...
THE explosion of a distant star light years away could be visible to Earthbound stargazers this week. The star system, tucked ...
The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...
Outlining plans for living and working on Mars, the space agency is focusing on oxygen, food, water, power, spacesuits, ...
Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.
Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...