Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

A recent study shows the asteroid belt is slowly losing material due to gravitational forces and collisions, with ...

The 3I/ATLAS interstellar object, detected by NASA, is remarkably larger and more massive than earlier estimates, making it ...

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered interstellar visitor called 3I/ATLAS, and early research suggests it may be ...

A massive comet traveling through the solar system is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien ...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS); Image processing: Emma Wälimäki © CC ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...