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 ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

However, thanks to some serious space detective work, including a powerful new tool called MAROON-X, a team of scientists was ...

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 ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.