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

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

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the ...

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

Harold Kozak will talk about the moon's origin and lead the stargazing event on Wednesday. Then, view the eclipse on Friday.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

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

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...