For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
The night sky has inspired humankind since time immemorial, and in 2025 one of the most unusual planetary alignments of all ...
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.
Experts have unveiled details of SIMP 0136, a floating planetary mass thought to be around 20 light-years away from the Earth ...
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Scientists found a bizarre new planet named Enaiposha, unlike any in our solar system. Learn why it's a mystery and how it’s ...
Outlining plans for living and working on Mars, the space agency is focusing on oxygen, food, water, power, spacesuits, ...
Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...