Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

The gas giant has been measured for the first time in decades, trimming 8 kilometres from its diameter Jupiter is not quite ...

Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, ...

The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

A study of the "failed star" brown dwarf known as "The Accident," conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, may reveal a ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully found and characterised the auroral “footprints” of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for the first time. This discovery completes ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn’s ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...