Among the solar system’s hundreds of known moons, few are as enticing as the handful that scientists believe have a global ocean lurking below their crusty surface. But two of these hidden oceans may ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Produce and power are both costly in the state. So researchers are testing ways to address both issues using the same land. 50 States, 50 Fixes Produce and power are both costly in the state. So ...

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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

NASA has thrown cold water on Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s theory that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization — a sobering albeit unsurprising conclusion ...

When NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft delivered its sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, scientists opened an ancient time capsule. Inside it were grains of dust and rock older than our solar ...

Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star in NGC 6072, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula. Credit: ...

Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT Survey imagery of these stunning regions of space. Credit: Space.com | animation ...