The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...
Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...
Shohei Ohtani may be the best two-way baseball player on planet Earth, but an astronaut who hails from the same country has ...
Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...