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

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

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

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

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

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

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

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

A team of global scientists issued a new report on Wednesday, noting that seven out of nine of key "planetary boundaries" ...

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

Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye spoke at a "Save NASA Science" press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building in ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...