For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 274 confirmed moons and ...

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and ...

“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 ...

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

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

A Hubble Space Telescope shows the Flame Nebula in visible light on the left. The zoomed-in views on the right show images from the JWST taken using ...

Defy gravity with out-of-this-world space trivia collected from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...