On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 ...
The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...
The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...
A recent study shows the asteroid belt is slowly losing material due to gravitational forces and collisions, with ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...
Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...
Something strange is moving through our solar system — and scientists are scrambling to figure out exactly what it is.
We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're ...
This artist's concept depicts the protoplanet WISPIT 2b accreting matter as it orbits around its star, WISPIT 2.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The ...
James Abbott, of North Essex Astronomical Society, on what you can look for in the sky above Essex in October.
Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...
At the time, astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted the highly unusual outburst in printed out records, annotating the major radio ...