What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...