"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

Kellie Gerardi of Jupiter, is her own kind of astronaut, one who marries science and sparkle and who wants to show other ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Astronaut and Jupiter mom Kellie Gerardi is training for her second trip to space in 2026. Here's how it compares with her first voyage in 2023.

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

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

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...