British rock band The Beatles put out a song titled ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. The song’s letters, LSD, were said at ...
Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... giant planets formed in much the same way as Jupiter and Saturn, through the slow formation of solid ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...