A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.
"With this research, we think we finally understand the mix of chemical elements that made the solar system," said SwRI's Dr. Christopher Glein, an expert in planetary geochemistry. "It has more ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...
Proba-3's mission will continuously measure the Sun’s energy output, enhancing climate research with precise solar data.
Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. It’s called a "Super-Earth" because it’s ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
We are living on a planet already hotter and more unstable than at any time in human history. Pretending otherwise will only ...