From exploring the Moon to revealing mysteries of the solar system, space agencies around the world are gearing up for an ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

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Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

Lab experiments conducted at NASA’s JPL shed new light on how Vesta’s surface may have been shaped by brief water flows.

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...