Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why...
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered what some are calling the first clear evidence of a "steam...
Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have spotted a record-breaking...
NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to seven months...
Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some have...
Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical?Technically,...
Lower those finger horns. "Iron Winds and Metal Rain" may be an awesome title for an album by a heavy metal band, but it's also a fairly...
Earth is set to gain another moon by the end of the month — a small asteroid that will be snared by our planet's gravity until...
What it is: exoplanet 2M1207bWhere it is: about 170 light-years away in the constellation CentaurusWhen it was shared: Sept. 10, 2004Why...
The best time to view Saturn is rapidly approaching!The best view of the ringed planet occurs when it enters opposition — in...
NASA has detected a planet-wide electric field surrounding Earth for the first time ever.The field, known as the ambipolar electric...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted six rogue planets drifting freely through space, untethered from the gravity of any...
What it is: One of the final photographs of Neptune taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probeWhere it is: 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers)...
China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June 2024. It’s moon lander, Chang'e...
Astronomers are proposing a new definition of a planet, nearly two decades after a previous such change led to Pluto's demotion. The...
Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" planet with...
Blurry new photos of a mountain-size, "planet killer" asteroid that recently made its closest approach to Earth in more than a century...
