China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our ...

2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has ...

Starfish Space is getting ready for a second test mission aimed at having its Otter Pup spacecraft dock with another ...

China is building the world's first supercomputer network in space, for which it launched 12 AI-powered satellites last week.

The unexpected 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory left NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar as the new heavy hitter when ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

After initial positioning by ground control, the satellite duo’s autonomous system of cameras, LEDs, and laser rangefinders ...