Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
Why haven’t humans colonized other planets yet?  While we dream of expanding across the solar system, there are hidden and ...
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Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...