The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...
Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the astronauts who had an unexpectedly long stay in orbit, are set to head back to Earth just two days after a replacement crew docked at the space station.
The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...