Decades after its launch, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft has made a startling discovery at the edge of our solar system. The probe ...
The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...
Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.
The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...
In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined ...
As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...
Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth ...
Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...
What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...
Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...
On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...