Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The moon was probably formed from the earth by solar tidal disruption, this method being abnormal in the system, and the later evolution of the earth and moon has been dominated by bodily tidal ...

The animation simulates the first 1.2 billion years of solar system history. The orbits of the 4 giant planets are shown as color ellipses. The green dots show small comet-like objects.

Some of Uranus' moons show signs of having subsurface liquid oceans where life might be possible. A mission to the Uranian ...

The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways ...

Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly modern phenomenon. A team of researchers recently calculated that Earth ...

Chinese scientists have made a groundbreaking analysis of the first lunar farside samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission, ...

In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

Not everyone will be able to see the phenomenon, known as an annular eclipse, on Wednesday, though a partial solar eclipse ...