William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...

When people believe that we have found life on other planets when we have not, we've lost more than public trust — we've lost ...

NASA had a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere and rings when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, ...

The scientists also observed that ice and gas giants like Uranus may be natural laboratories for learning about atmospheres. This absence of solid ground means that cloud formation, storm development, ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...

A rare one-hour occultation in April 2025 let NASA and global scientists uncover new secrets about Uranus’ atmosphere, rings, ...

"There’s a high probability that if you want to think about the most hospitable place where you want life to be outside the ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

For the first time, astronomers located a molecular cloud by detecting hydrogen, its key component, rather than other ...

Computer Science & Engineering faculty develop technologies for a new generation of autonomous space worker robots ...

The elements in our bodies, the elements that make up our bones, the trees we see outside, the other planets in the solar ...