On December 24, 2021, NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake with a distinct signature rippling across the surface of Mars. In a pair...
A major question in Mars history is whether the planet had an ocean in its northern hemisphere. New research provides evidence for a northern ocean or...
Radiation resistance of microbes is a key parameter in considering survivability of microbes over geologic times on the frigid, arid surface of Mars that...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two tails of dust ejected from the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits a larger,...
3200 Phaethon, one of the largest potentially hazardous asteroids, rotates once every 3.6 hours, and that rotation period is decreasing by about 4 milliseconds...
The dwarf planet Haumea resides in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of the outermost planet Neptune.
An artist’s conception of Haumea, its moons Hi’iaka...
New videos captured by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show the rare moment of the Martian moon Deimos passing...
In the search for life beyond Earth, subsurface bodies of water in the outer Solar System are some of the most important targets. That’s why NASA and...
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slammed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos. According...
Both the first and second interstellar meteors, IM1 and IM2, are outliers in material strength and may have originated in supernova explosions, according...
The subsurface of Mars during the Noachian period was likely to have been habitable for microorganisms that feed on hydrogen and produce methane, according...
These images of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa were taken by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during a close approach on September 29,...
This black-and-white image of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) instrument on board NASA’s Juno orbiter during...
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos for the first planetary defense test. Two days...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope teamed up to collect data before and after NASA’s Double Asteroid...
