The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in ...

NASA has launched 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 entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.