The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

And the spacecraft is already getting to work, starting up its science payloads and capturing amazing images of its surroundings and the distant Earth from the lunar surface. — Andrew Jones ...

With the arrival of the Blue Ghost lander on the moon this weekend, get ready for an influx of stunning new images from our planet’s natural satellite. The mission, from Firefly Aerospace, touched ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

"Webb's new images of two iconic systems, HR 8799 and 51 Eridani, and their planets have stunned researchers ... dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon.

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...