Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.
The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
The Sun’s activity is what gives us beautiful auroras – but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...