We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
This device, known as the Roman Coronagraph Instrument, is designed to block starlight, enabling scientists to detect the faint light from planets beyond our solar system. This achievement marks a ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...