A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

Planets, moons, and the quest for life beyond earth As we explore the vast expanse of space, we embark on a journey that ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

By Karen Taylor Based on ancient wisdom, the Chinese year is split into 24 segments, or solar terms, going beyond the concept ...