Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Its immense heat and radiation can be very dangerous, which is why it is good that we are a distance away from it that we are ...

After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

NASA's four PUNCH spacecraft have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base and are preparing for a February launch.

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the jo ...

The Georgia Southern Planetarium will offer its popular "Perfect Little Planet" show on February 6 & 7. It's fun for all ages ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

JANUARY 27, 2025 — The UTSA Office of University Strategic Communications has earned The University of Texas System’s top award for communications strategy for its storytelling about the university’s ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.