Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

LOOKING INTO THE WEEKEND, BUT COMING UP THIS WEEKEND AS WELL. ONE MORE GREAT METEOR SHOWER THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS YEAR ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf that were orbiting distant stars, a discovery ...

There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit, some of which pose a threat to functional satellites.

The James Webb Space Telescope finds WASP-121b leaking two long helium tails, offering new insight into atmospheric escape on hot Jupiter exoplanets ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

Before the ribbon cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by Westfield High School Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette — ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.