The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

NASA scientists have discovered Altjira system, a group of 3 space rocks in Kuiper Belt, providing evidence for the theory of ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

Groundbreaking research reveals the Oort Cloud's shape as a spiral structure, challenging traditional beliefs about its random collection. NASA's Pleiades supercomputer simulations suggest the spiral ...

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

By Katrina Miller Two NASA missions will ... to capture wider views of solar wind, the hot plasma spewing from the sun’s corona that washes over the solar system. Each satellite has three ...

“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,” Terry said. NASA ...

Our solar system is nestled on the third arm of the ... and what that means for us. NASA has a unique mission: to help us better understand our world and our universe. It’s a broad mandate ...