How can humanity use the developing Lunar Gateway as an appropriate starting point for advancing human space exploration beyond the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

The discovery challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis, which suggests a massive, unseen planet is influencing the orbits of distant TNOs. While most extreme TNOs show a clustered pattern that supports ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

Scientists may have found a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at a wild 90-degree tilt—something never seen before.

OF201 is incredibly lightweight on a cosmic scale. Scientists estimate its mass is about 20,000 times less than Earth’s and ...