Using data gathered by NASA’s Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa’s ice shell is about 18 miles thick — which could make it hard for nutrients to get down to its buried ocean.
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Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.
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Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe’s earliest supermassive black holes formed without stars.
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The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex.
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In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a striking milestone: more than 6,000 known exoplanets. NASA’s Exoplanet Archive has captured not j…
A 250th anniversary only comes once in a lifetime.
“We’ve often seen the ‘baby pictures’ of planets forming, but until now, the ‘teenage years’ have been a missing link.”
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Hunt for the names of mysterious dwarf planets, most of which orbit on the fringes of our solar system
“It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe.”
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