The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

Even the icy planets in our solar ... NASA is set to launch two major missions, PUNCH and SPHEREx, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 2. PUNCH, a four-satellite ...

As per NASA, Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system (Representational picture). A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet ...

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 ...

The team's research indicates the Solar System's passage through the Orion region occurred between approximately 18.2 and 11.5 million years ago, with the most likely time between 14.8 and 12.4 ...

As quoted by NASA, " Planetary alignment" can refer to several different phenomena. As the planets of our solar system orbit the Sun, they occasionally line up in space in events called ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its ...

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced Wednesday his retirement, effective Saturday, February 22. (NASA image) BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA—NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced ...

NASA announced the retirement of the agency's associate administrator, Jim Free, on Wednesday (Feb. 19,) thanking him for his more than 30 years of service to the agency. Free's last day will be ...

SPHEREx will take pictures in ... it turns into the solar wind, which is the material that fills our whole solar system," said PUNCH mission scientist Nicholeen Viall of NASA's Goddard Space ...