NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life.
A new NASA-led study suggests that a potential exomoon may be orbiting the exoplanet WASP-49 b, a gas giant located 635 light-years from Earth. The possible exomoon is believed to be rocky and volcanically active, similar to Jupiter's Io.
During the company's fifth Starship test flight, SpaceX successfully caught the spacecraft's Super Heavy booster using its "Mechazilla" tower, an unbelievable feat of engineering that required an immense amount of precision and experience.
By studying hot gas glowing in circumgalactic space, astrophysicists have found evidence of enormous magnetic fields that wind through and around our galaxy's dark matter 'halo'.
An international research team used the asteroid Bennu's tracking data to study the possible existence of a fifth fundamental force of the universe.
Astronomers refer to the Shapley Concentration as a "basin of attraction". It's a region containing many clusters and groups of galaxies and comprises the greatest concentration of matter in the local Universe.
TIC 290061484 is a system of gravitationally bound stars consisting of a tightly-orbiting binary pair with a third star that circles both. Astonishingly, they're so close together the entire system would fit inside the orbit of Mercury.
Ceres’ crust is probably made from 90% ice today. Using data from NASA’s Dawn mission, scientists found it was likely once a muddy ocean world.
Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive objects in the universe - with masses around one billion times more than that of the Sun.
The light of a supernova that has traveled for 10 billion years to reach us has given us a new measurement of the Hubble constant - the accelerating rate at which the Universe is expanding.
Researchers analyzed new data describing the Moon's rigidity under the gravitational influence of Earth and the Sun, finding its mass is unlikely to be solid all the way through.
The science team thinks that igneous and/or metamorphic processes likely formed the rock.
Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as far from its place of origin to its current near-Earth orbit as previously assumed. New research suggests that Ryugu was formed near Jupiter.
Using data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's moon Charon.
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun.
