“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can use its onboard imaging system to find its way among the stars,” added Alan ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape our understanding of distant icy worlds—and even hint at how Earth once ...

Our blue marble is already slated to be eaten by our sun in several billion years, after it turns into a red giant and expands. But researchers said in a recent study published in the journal Icarus ...

Explore the details of Johns Hopkins APL's potential $388.8 million contract modification to provide R&D and engineering ...

New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet's volcano for ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

Credit: JHUAPL New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the sun.

view more Credit: JHUAPL SAN ANTONIO — June 3, 2025 — New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun.

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which is roughly six times the mass of Jupiter (making it a "super-Jupiter ...

Using heat-activated nitinol metal, researchers have devised a reversible, shape-shifting, conical spiral antenna that needs no discrete external actuator. How a special nitinol compound and 3D ...

Chances of a “city-killing” asteroid smashing into the Earth in less than a decade have increased, according to NASA. The U.S. space agency said the probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting ...