A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

A ninth planet may exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt, a region populated by icy bodies that orbit the Sun.

There will be no jaw-dropping “planet parade” on Monday, June 3—at least, not one anyone will see. NASA has taken the ... Uranus and Neptune. The solar system is flat and all the planets ...

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

"We'll be applying those lessons learned to the next generation of NASA flagship missions that will be explicitly designed to look for Earth-like planets." The coronagraph is a complex system of ...

enabling scientists to detect the faint light from planets beyond our solar system. This achievement marks a significant milestone for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation ...

The formation of planets is not completely understood, but it is believed that it is not just gravity pulling matter together ...

NASA’s interplanetary station «Juno» sent a new series of images of Jupiter taken during the next (already 66th) flyby of the largest planet in the solar system. The $1 billion spacecraft was launched ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation ...