Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Moon pictures from Monday night. Shot from Drift Wood beach in Lusby, MD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Moon#/media/File:500px_photo_38644816.jpeg ...

Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...

Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured images of the Moon's surface on Oct 16, 2022, after flying by the Earth for its first of ...

Astronomers have long described black holes as cosmic traps so powerful that nothing — not even a beam of light — can claw its way free. Yet even these extreme objects have limits, and scientists say ...

​The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has been getting a lot of attention online, especially as it moves closer to the inner Solar System before Christmas. Many people have shared worries, questions, and ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini pointed some of the earliest telescopes at Saturn and made a surprising ...

Avi Loeb identifies a 13th anomaly suggesting interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is targeting Jupiter. Explore the evidence for the ...

Nicolò Bernardini, Edoardo Ciccarelli, Nicola Baresi, Roberto Armellin (2023)SUCCESSIVE CONVEX PROGRAMMING FOR HIGH-ORDER GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION OF SATELLITES, In: Proceedings of the 2023 AAS/AIAA ...

Recent Satellite Launch News. It’s been a busy time for rocket launches lately, with a few key missions making headlines.

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...