As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations of the observatory. While the telescope ...

The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light ...

Neptune has a complicated life story, and its moon Nereid might be the only one left standing from the planet’s ...

In one of the most exciting developments in astronomy in the 21st century, NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) today–and Northern Arizona University astronomers, planetary ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Neptune's moon Nereid may be the lone survivor of an ancient cataclysmic event, according to new findings from the James Webb ...

An artist's conception of Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 outgassing material into space. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / L. Hustak (STScI) There's a class of objects journeying around our solar system ...

A recent study published in Science Advances suggests that Neptune’s moon Nereid may be the last surviving original moon of ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...

In a single analytical sweep of data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a team led by astronomer Marina ...

The presence of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed in a much colder place before our solar system existed.