ESA is making use of spacecraft originally dedicated to its Mars and Jupiter missions to track comet 3I/ATLAS as it continues ...
Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...
Saturn is known for its iconic rings, but it should also probably be known for its moons. The ringed world was already the record holder for the most natural satellites of any planet in the Solar ...
A rare visitor from beyond our solar system, comet 3I/Atlas, is poised to make a dramatic close approach to Mars this Friday, ...
We all picture the Solar System as a neat cosmic racetrack with planets orbiting the Sun on a flat, organized path. But have you ever wondered what lies above and below that path? In this video, we ...
Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...
Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...
Underground oceans on moons “are perhaps the best candidates for the emergence of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
Without the dispensation, NASA management and safety officers at the launch site in New Mexico would have been furloughed and ...
Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...
For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...