Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

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

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...