Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

The solar system was literally turning itself inside out.” When most of us were growing up, the solar system seemed reliable and well behaved. “There were nine planets orbiting in well ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

When NASA astronauts return to the moon under the Artemis campaign and eventually venture farther into the solar system, they ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the dark reaches of ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope "opened a new window to the universe" when it launched into space. Now, 35 years later, NASA is ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

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 ...