It would take the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - about 1 million miles from Earth ... "The goal was not to assess planet LHS 3844b specifically," First said, "but rather to consider a plausible ...
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...
Scientists have referred to the ancient mammoth structures as "Red Monsters" because their high dust content makes them ...
New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered surprisingly large and bright early galaxies. This discovery challenges the ...
Webb captures merging galaxy pairs known as II ZW 96. It is located around 500 million light-years away from Earth.
Greetings everyone and welcome to our planetary November skies. The sun set on Monday at 6:51 p.m., which is the earliest ...
A rendering of an asteroid floating in space That year, the IAU tasked a small committee with creating a working definition ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...
On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.