Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...

In the latest footage captured by the James Webb Telescope, a nebula has been revealed surrounding a dying star.

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...