Quasi-Planets Called JuMBOs Are Bopping Around in Space
A team of astronomers have detected over 500 planet-like objects in the inner Orion Nebula and the Trapezium Cluster that they believe could shake up the very definition of a…
Ouch! Jupiter Just Got Smacked By an Unidentified Celestial Object
Jupiter’s south pole as captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/John Landino As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is not one to play with. That doesn’t stop…
New Image Reveals Dusty Clumps That Could Be the Source of Gas Giants
Researchers think they’ve gotten a glimpse at how gas giants like Jupiter form, thanks to a remarkable image of a distant star system. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope…
‘Mind Blowing’ Trojan Planet Suspected of Sharing the Same Orbit as Its Sibling
A group of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert was aimed at a young star system 400 light years away when it detected something unusual: a cloud of debris chasing…
Gaze in Wonder at These Stunning Views of the Cosmos
The Milky Way over Pain de Sucre, France.Photo: Jeff Graphy The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena—from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to…
Hubble reveals glow of ‘ghostly’ light around our solar system
Researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope have made a strange discovery: there’s a ghostly light surrounding our solar system.
James Webb will investigate targets in our cosmic backyard
Included in the objects James Webb will be studying, as well as distant galaxies and far-off stars, are targets right here in our own solar system,
Go on a ‘Grand Tour’ of the outer solar system with these Hubble images
Each year Hubble snaps images of the outer planets of our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — to see how they are changing over time.
NASA’s take on future space travel is a wild sci-fi ride
A dramatic video from NASA dreams of future space travel where humans visit distant Saturn moons and planets beyond our solar system.
Saturn’s rings are jiggling, delightfully enough, due to its wobbly core
Our solar system is full of wonders, like the beauty of Saturn’s rings. But these rings aren’t static — recent research shows that they are gently jiggling.