As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been ... their light spectrum and temperature. open image in gallery Pluto was once our solar system's ninth planet, but has been reclassified as a ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...

Both groundbreaking missions promise to reveal previously unseen and unknown aspects of our solar system and galaxy. “These missions cover the full breadth of the science that NASA does every ...

Artist's concept of a super-Neptune orbiting a fast-moving, low-mass star. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)) ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system ... into an advanced model on NASA's Pleiades supercomputer, the ...

according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It will pass within (a cosmically slight) 917,000 miles of Earth before whizzing back off out across the solar system, not to return to near us again ...

its findings could lead to a better understanding of water cycles on airless bodies throughout the solar system.