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 ...

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, ...

The vast expanse of space often feels like a puzzle, with celestial objects serving as pieces that hold clues to the universe ...

Heat from tidal forces remelted the Moon’s crust, says new reesarch, which may explain why the Moon is older than some ...

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

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

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

However, some evidence, like the age of certain minerals on the Moon’s surface, suggests the Moon might be about 4.51 billion years old. It means it came to be about 200 million years after the ...

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

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

Two satellites will fly in precision formation, producing hours–long solar eclipses to reveal the secrets of the Sun's ...