On August 19, 2025, astronomers with NASA's Webb Mission Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center officially announced the discovery of a new moon orbiting Uranus. This brings the total number of moons ...

Uranus' new moon, S/2025 U1, was discovered in February 2025 and is approximately 6 miles in diameter, orbiting Uranus at a ...

In a discovery that blurs the line between Earth’s celestial neighbors, scientists have traced the origins of 2024 PT5, an asteroid temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity in late 2024, back ...

A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Using microwave instruments to peer deep beneath the surface of the far side of the Moon, researchers have detected a ‘hotspot’ they say is a large subsurface granite mass, suggesting the Moon ...

Research reveals ancient Earth may have had temporary polar moons formed after a collision with Theia, reshaping our understanding of early planetary history.