"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery of Saturn, captured from 2018-2024, has been time-lapsed. Footage courtesy: NASA, ESA, Amy ...

Webb detects silane in a nearby brown dwarf, solving the mystery of the disappearance of silicon in the atmospheres of giant ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...

ESA is now targeting a mission to study enigmatic Enceladus as part of its Voyage 2050, the agency's long-term plan for space ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...

October will begin with a lunar standout: the first of three consecutive supermoons. Supermoons appear slightly larger and ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A t ...

In a preview of their flight, the crew of Artemis II, three Americans and a Canadian, struck a tone that veered away from the ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

During the conference, NASA reiterated that safety was the number one priority for the flight. Artemis II was originally scheduled for this year, but NASA pushed it to next year after the Orion ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...