NASA's Pleiades supercomputer simulations suggest the spiral shape is influenced by the Milky Way's gravity. This discovery could redefine our understanding of the solar system's boundaries and ...

Credit: Science Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo The Oort cloud — the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system — might ... a day, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft won't ...

Two members from the Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory in Tupper Lake are now “NASA solar ambassadors,” tasked with ...

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.

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 secrets of the solar wind will soon come under renewed scrutiny thanks to the launch of an upcoming NASA mission that will gaze at the sun and the inner solar system. "PUNCH is going to ...

NASA is soliciting proposals from private contractors capable of operating the International Space Station’s Astrobee robotic system. The solicitation seeks a commercial partner to run the ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

"We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that would lie between the orbits of Venus and Earth if it were in our solar system," says astronomer Sean ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency have successfully ... and better planning of mission activity on the Moon and across the solar system. What are GNSS signals? Earth satellites relay Global ...