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

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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 ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe ...

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

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models ... According to the team, the gravitational pull of our solar system's planets and ...

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 ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky ...

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