Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The latest announcement from the Education Department could impact millions of borrowers with federal student loans.

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

The solar system is currently embedded deep within the Local Bubble, a region of relatively low density stretching for a ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, confirming a theory about the formation of our solar system.

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...