A new study by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton highlights the challenges planets ...
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their current orbital ...
Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...
The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using JWST now ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.
Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...
This once-in-a-generation shift is a pivotal power play in a saga that will unfold in the years and decades to come.
Rumya Sundaram, Citizen Scientist Coordinator for the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, will present this month’s Citizen ...
Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...