NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) ...

NASA has confirmed that a fireball and booms seen in northeast Ohio on March 17 was an asteroid that entered Earth's ...

Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood ...

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear ...

A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

The March 2026 meteor frightened residents in both Ohio and Pennsylvania after many heard a loud explosion in the morning.

Asteroid 16 Psyche has intrigued astronomers due to its unique characteristics, not fitting the typical profiles of rocky or ...

Scientists have simulated the formation of a giant crater on Asteroid 16 Psyche to predict what the space rock looks like on ...

Learn more about the Kepler-51 star system and some of the ''oddball" planets that reside there.

For decades, astronomers have struggled to differentiate giant planets from brown dwarfs, a class of objects more massive than planets but too small to ignite nuclear fusion like true stars. Through a ...

The newly identified objects are small, distant moons, likely only a few kilometers across, and belong to a class known as ...