Bill McKinnon shares his story of a career spent studying the geology and geophysics of icy worlds beyond our own. McKinnon, ...
The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
A natural satellite is simply a celestial object that orbits a planet or a smaller body. Unlike the ones we build and send up ...
Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...
An orb with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new finds with surprising parallels in fiction are rewriting our understanding of the universe.
Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?
A new study conducted with data from the Cassini spacecraft shows that Saturn's moon Enceladus has the right ingredients for ...
Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...
The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...
About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.