For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Overnight, on March 13-14, 2025, the full moon will experience a total lunar eclipse that will be visible across the night side of Earth at the time of the eclipse. The Moon will pass into Earth ...

This helped the team determine what objects were moving near the planet, like stars, and others that were remaining in orbit ...

The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were in place of our sun in the solar system, the planets surrounding it would all be within the orbit of Mercury ...

Despite not technically being a planet anymore, Pluto has five moons. The 128 new Saturnian satellites are all considered irregular moons. These are objects that orbit their host planet on an ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. MIT researchers calculated that as global ...