The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...
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The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into ...
A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed images ever taken of a jet launched by a young star, confirming a theoretical ...
New data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals that Saturn’s iconic rings extend far beyond the thin plane we’ve long ...
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A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...
Learn about the collisions between space rocks that have created huge dust clouds, one of which was previously mistaken for ...
Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...
What looked like a mysterious exoplanet was actually the sparkling debris from a violent collision between massive space rocks.
In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...