Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Jennifer Rocca, a project systems engineer for NASA SPHEREx, said their project goal is to map the universe in more than 100 ...

Honda is aiming beyond Earth with plans to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system aboard the International Space Station. In partnership with Sierra Space and ...

VIPs cut the ribbon at Portal Space Systems’ HQ in Bothell ... vacuum chamber where components for Portal’s solar thermal propulsion system are being tested. In another corner, a 3D printer ...

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 ... now managed to start drawing up a map of the ...

There is a “doomed pair of spiraling stars” swirling only 150 light-years away from Earth–practically our neighbor in space terms ... than Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet.

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...

Clearly, this is exactly what you don’t want in glass that’s used in a lunar solar panel and any glass used in space needs to be extremely radiation resistant. Moon regolith simulant ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to ... will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona, and ...