Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...
The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a ...
JWST observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, charting the planet's upper atmosphere and magnetic environment for the ...
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.
Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, ...
Astronomers used AI to search 35 years of Hubble data and discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic anomalies hidden in plain sight.
Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the ...
New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...
A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...
The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...