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

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

In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the ...

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have found new evidence that a mysterious ninth planet may be hiding at the edge of the solar system - rewriting what we know about the cosmos again. An international team from Taiwan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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