This is because most asteroids never experienced the ‘differentiation’ that took place on planets such as the Earth.

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to settle key questions on exoplanets (a planet outside ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...