Two teams have separately concluded that Uranus is releasing more internal heat than was indicated in observations by Voyager ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting ...

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...

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.

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