NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

We’ve all seen pictures of the Apollo 17 astronauts walking on the Moon in 1972. And while some people still refuse to believe this happened, NASA is setting its sights on the Moon again. Starting in ...

Humans have been dreaming of traveling through outer space for generations. This has even been a goal before we truly understood just how large the universe is. While there have been an endless number ...

An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a distance ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...