NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual path around ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA’s most precise and technically proficient equipment for observing the wonders of the universe. Astronomers rely on it to unravel the deepest secrets by peaking ...

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“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...