Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. Detecting these molecules could ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

open image in gallery Analysis of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped shed light on the ancient surfaces of trans-Neptunian objects like Pluto. Scientists confirmed what they ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

The largest KBO is dwarf planet Pluto. The Hubble finding is crucial support ... NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is also joining in on the study of Altjira as it will check if the components ...

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

After 17 years of observation, researchers are certain that what they thought was a group of two celestial bodies is actually ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that ... The Altjira system joins the dwarf planet Pluto and the "space snowman" Arrokoth, a contact binary ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial ... New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph ...