The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...