Space

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan […]

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean

Satellites hampering radio astronomy — Science News, October 5, 1974 In the past, the satellites and probes launched by NASA

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,

Dozens of runaway stars were caught escaping from a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

This exoplanet’s atmosphere is going full steam ahead. A planet beyond our solar system called GJ 9827d has an atmosphere

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the

The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical