The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Mar. 17, 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 ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...