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

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

There were high hopes for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS throughout the first part of 2024. It was a visitor from the Oort Cloud, the vast cloud of large comets that surrounds our solar system, that was on a ...

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

The Moon, our ancient companion, might be older than we think. While lunar rocks suggest an age of 4.35 billion years, new ...

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

Despite extensive research, many questions about Valles Marineris remain unanswered, such as the exact mechanisms of its ...

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

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble ... hopefully uncover answers about the formation of our own planet.” ...