HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

By studying the Sun’s acoustic waves, scientists are uncovering its hidden dynamics, refining stellar models, and influencing ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...