The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Details of the Horsehead Nebula

Focused on the part of the sky where you can spot the constellation Orion on clear nights, the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest dispatch blinks in astonishing images from an area known as the Orion B molecular cloud.

New evidence found for Planet 9

A small team of planetary scientists from U.S. reports possible new evidence of Planet 9.

Ancient Rocks Reveal Earth's Magnetic Field Existed 3.7 Billion Years Ago

Rocks that formed some 3.7 billion years ago in the early Archean have given us the earliest glimpse yet of Earth's magnetic field.

Orbiter Spots "Spiders" on Surface of Mars

These so called "spiders" are the result of a complex geological process that causes carbon dioxide to sublimate, digging up darker material from below the surface during the planet's spring.

NASA hears from Voyager 1 after months of quiet

The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. 

NASA's Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io

Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon.

A 'Perfect Tidal Storm' Is Making This Newly Discovered Planet Glow

Exoplanet TOI-6713.01 experiences 10 million times more tidal energy than Io, resulting in a 2,300 degrees Celsius surface temperature. This means the planet literally glows at optical wavelengths.

Asteroid Kamo'oalewa could have been blasted from our moon

469219 Kamo’oalewa as a near-Earth asteroid and a quasi-satellite to Earth. However, in 2021, astronomers using spectroscopy revealed that Kamo’oalewa might in fact be a piece of the moon. 

In search for alien life, purple may be the new green

Purple bacteria is one of the primary contenders for life that could dominate a variety of Earth-like planets orbiting different stars, and would produce a distinctive "light fingerprint," Cornell scientists report.

Physicists Think The Infinite Size of The Multiverse Could Be Infinitely Bigger

Not only does God play dice, that great big casino of quantum physics could have far more rooms than we ever imagined. An infinite number more, in fact.

Life on early Earth could have been seeded by comets, meteorites

A new study aimed at answering the latter question finds that some building blocks didn’t need to have formed on Earth, but could have arrived from space.

Venus' atmosphere is leaking gases into space

BepiColombo made two flybys of Venus on its journey to Mercury. The spacecraft found carbon and oxygen escaping into space in a previously unexplored region of Venus’ magnetosphere. 

Dragonfly rotorcraft given green light for mission to Titan

NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered v rotorcraft to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns.

SpaceX's most-flown reusable rocket launches for the 20th time

Remarkably, SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket almost every day over the last week.