PN7 has been a mysterious space traveler, shadowing our planet for decades undetected in our vast celestial world, until now.
Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...
James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.
Mississippi State's Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with the Astronomy Club, plans to host a special event just in ...
Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of gas and dust around a newly formed planetary body. It is hoped the ...
A team of scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, using photography commissioned from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered a previously unknown moon in our solar system that's in ...
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