China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has closed to within roughly 20 kilometers of asteroid 2016 HO3, a tiny rock between 40 and 100 ...
Exomoon discovery: astronomers report the strongest evidence yet for a natural satellite outside our solar system — a Jupiter ...
Scientists have measured temperatures beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, offering the first-ever glimpse of ...
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser What makes a moon a moon? To be a satellite, something only needs to orbit something else, which ...
Astronomers detected a strong 170-day signal suggesting a Jupiter-mass object orbits the brown dwarf CD-35 2722 B. The ...
A new study based on satellite observations of a brown dwarf orbiting a star suggests the possible first detection of an exomoon. Researchers are debating its classification as an 'exoplanet' or ...
As the Solar System orbits the center of the Milky Way every 250 million years or so, it repeatedly passes through the galaxy ...
The moon is 384,000 kilometers (239,000 miles) away from Earth, but one of the best places to study its surface is much closer to home. Western planetary scientist Catherine Neish and PhD candidate ...
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 shows how opening a model to outsiders can turn other companies’ computing power into a competitive ...
Scientists have discovered a unique planetary system located 71 light-years away, featuring a red dwarf star orbited by a ...
What has eluded detection so far have been exosatellites: moons orbiting those remote planets. Our solar system is home to a ...