Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, confirming a theory about the formation of our solar system.

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In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

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The solar system isn’t just the Earth and the sun ... from the sun–is 3.3 billion miles away, somewhere out near Pluto. These eccentric orbits take comets across the transition point ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle. Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

PUNCH, a bold new NASA mission, has successfully taken its first images of the Sun’s corona from orbit using four ...

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