How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent ...

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moon, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...