The James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery—six strange, starless objects that are floating freely in space. These objects, called...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long puzzled scientists about its origins. With a diameter of almost...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long puzzled scientists about its origins. With a diameter of almost...

Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, is tidally locked. It always shows the same side to the planet it is orbiting and hence also has a...

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest...

A "promising place" to explore. Some 480 million miles away, an ocean — harboring perhaps twice the water of Earth's seas — sloshes beneath the...

A "promising place" to explore. Some 480 million miles away, an ocean — harboring perhaps twice the water of Earth's seas — sloshes beneath the...

What’s the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty iceball composed of rock and ice. The classic image is of a...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have made exciting discoveries about how materials like sand and rock behave when hit by extreme forces. This...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have made exciting discoveries about how materials like sand and rock behave when hit by extreme forces. This...