Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...
What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...
Pluto was once called the ninth planet, but in 2006, scientists changed its status to a dwarf planet. A planet must clear its orbit of other objects, but Pluto shares its space with many small icy ...
Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.
There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...
Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.
"Kuiper Belt objects are icy worlds [that] can tell ... Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and Saturn's moon Enceladus.