The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has uncovered the hidden complexity of SIMP 0136, ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

Scientists are discovering more exoplanets, but they’re still figuring out how these planets form. Jupiter-like exoplanets ...

NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling ...