The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Some objects were placed in space on purpose, symbolic gestures meant to inspire or amuse. Others were lost by accident, ...

A mysterious new world has been spotted at the galaxy's edge, sparking excitement among astronomers, and its all thanks to a ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity that observes light bending.

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No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

As fascinating as bizarre signals from other planets can be—teaching us about earthquakes on Mars or auroras in the skies of Jupiter —sometimes even weirder signals come from weather extremes ...

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the October 14, 2024, launch. Scheduled to arrive in the ...

The researchers noticed that inside the orbit of Jupiter, the meteoroid changed from moving around the barycenter to moving around the Sun's center. "We found that the two jumps in the plane of motion ...

As the new year of 2025 begins, the night sky of January offers an exciting lineup of celestial events for stargazing enthusiasts. These include a rare chance to see a parade of four bright planets – ...

Studies have confirmed the existence of a magnetic field in the inner solar system, extending to Jupiter’s orbit. Particularly, a region that stretched from the sun to approximately 7 ...