The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers have measured supersonic winds racing around the equator of the distant gas ...

Lee Feinberg, HWO's principal architect based at Goddard, said in a separate presentation that NASA is currently envisioning ...

Being a "hot Jupiter" means it's a poor candidate for anyone trying to track down alien life – as well as for setting up a space base away from Earth. The planet was first discovered in October ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

Winds circling a gas giant more than 500 light years from Earth have been detected flowing at supersonic speeds approaching 33,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) per hour, making them the fastest air ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...

Space games have been there since the beginning of video game history. Today, these five offer galactic explorers a broad mix of genres with lots of fast-paced action adventures, tricky trade ...