Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station may be able to return to Earth sooner than expected. In a Tuesday press release, NASA said that SpaceX would switch ...

A nne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, is will soon be working with NASA ...

Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured detailed images of Lynds 483 (L483), a star-forming region located 650 ...

SpaceX and NASA are set for the launch of the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission. A Falcon 9 will ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

There are 8 planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Naptune. The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust.