Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Lunar samples show evidence that solar wind could be behind the water molecules on the moon's surface, according to NASA. The results could shine a light on how water ice collects in cold traps formed ...

Researchers recently searched for deltas on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, but came up empty. While Titan features rivers and ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were ...

iStock A new international study suggests that microbial life, though scarce, could potentially exist in Titan's subsurface ocean Far beyond our blue planet, some 1.2 billion kilometers away, lies ...

Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system, only smaller than Jupiter. It has the most extensive and complex ring system made of ice, rock, and dust particles. Saturn is so light that it ...

Uranus is twice the orbital distance of Saturn; Neptune is more than three times ... Particles borne on the solar wind smack into the planetary magnetosphere, and are whisked away and accelerated ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Scientists say there's a chance that a "small population" could be tucked away on Titan, the biggest of Saturn's moons. This image captured by Nasa's Cassini craft shows the dark side of Titan ...