Astronomers have confirmed what was long suspected - frozen water is spread throughout the universe. NASA's James Webb Space ...

NASA explains. Saturn is transitioning, causing its tilt to shift. This will alter our view of the planet as Earth crosses its ring plane. This is where the disappearance comes in. “The rings ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...