What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...
Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...
Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...
While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...
Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...
The Sun has been busy again, and this time, its outburst struck Venus first. A powerful solar storm recently slammed into the ...
Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...
ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...