Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be ...

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...

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Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb identifies 18 anomalies of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, raising questions about whether it ...

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

When NASA launched the Pioneer probes, they were met with an intriguing mystery. At around 20 astronomical units, both spacecraft began accelerating towards the Sun.

Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, ...

The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a planet so huge it could hold 1,000 Earths, is 8 kilometers less wide at its equator and 24 ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." ...