The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third ...

The largest KBO is dwarf planet Pluto. The Hubble finding is crucial ... in detail are Pluto and the smaller object Arrokoth, which NASA's New Horizons mission visited in 2015 and 2019, respectively.

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

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

NASA’s science programs budget could be slashed by 50 percent in fiscal year 2026, people familiar with the Trump administration’s budget request warn ...

To learn more about the solar system's eight planets, go to NASA's planet information website ... The top finisher is a shocker Why Pluto isn't part of any planet parades For those people still ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper ... Bettati and co-author Jonathan Lunine, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the ...