Those orbiting Barnard’s star are among the smallest of the more than 5,800 exoplanets discovered since the 1990s as ...

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

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The recent findings up the number of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star from one to at least three, possibly four, as researchers were able to use the MAROON-X instrument on the Gemini North telescope ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...