The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...

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About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on the design of a finite-time state feedback controller for a spacecraft rendezvous and docking system with sensor delays in a circular orbit. Initially, based on the ...

New research from Rice University suggests that Jupiter played a decisive role in protecting Earth by preventing it from spiralling into the Sun during the Solar System’s early years. The study, based ...

"Jupiter didn't just become the biggest planet — it set the architecture for the whole inner solar system." Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early ...

Launching atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, NASA’s Orion spacecraft quite literally is the foundation on which the Artemis II mission rests. Getting it ready for flight has been a decades-long ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...