Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a ...

New research suggests volcanic activity reshaped the Moon's geology, resetting its apparent age to 4.35 billion years.

In an "idea paper" published on December 18 in Nature, UC Santa Cruz Professor Francis Nimmo and his co-authors propose a ...

In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful ...

After its formation, the moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

A few hundred million years after its formation, the Moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several times and was completely churned through. At ...

New research suggests the moon is much older than previous estimates, with a history marked by intense volcanic activity that ...