Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the asteroid last night.
A new study shows how methane snow accumulates on Pluto's mountain peaks. These snowcaps - first seen by New Horizons in 2015 - look a lot...
Are there worlds out there - orbiting distant stars - even better suited for life than Earth? Might they be older, larger, warmer, wetter and with...
Scientists with the European Space Agency say that the Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of three more salty lakes below Mars' south pole. The discovery...
The discovery of near-perfectly preserved billion-year-old Martian dunes is helping scientists to unravel the geologic and climatic history of the red planet.
All these years, NASA scientists have laboriously sifted through spacecraft images to identify and classify markings on Mars. Now they're using a new
A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope - captured in August 2020 - shows the planet's icy moon Europa as well as...
For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. If further confirmed, the discovery shows that some planets could survive the...
The new work reveals dark matter haloes as active regions of the sky, teeming with not only galaxies, but also radiation-emitting collisions that could make it...
Earth will pass between Mars and the sun in October 2020, and the distance between our 2 worlds is now relatively small. And so Mars is...