Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the moon. It's called the Artemis-enabled Stellar ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

"Studying them helps scientists understand how planets formed and evolved." Recent near-infrared spectroscopic studies carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found that Pluto ...

IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using ...