First, a piece of basalt simulating an asteroid was secured in place, and opposite it was a target material resembling early ...

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

Today, let's talk about something super mysterious! A detector has discovered an icy comet in the Kuiper Belt, and this has ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Michael Starkey has provided observational evidence from the SwRI-led ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research Institute, working with Yale University, has produced a review highlighting ...

The images of Comet 3I/ATLAS were captured by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile on Aug. 27 as the icy ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes than previously thought ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.