Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar ...

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The images suggest ... according to NASA. The breakthrough was enabled by Webb's advanced coronagraphs, which selectively block the intense light from bright stars, much like a solar eclipse ...

Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI) NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet beyond our solar system for the first time. The images feature HR 8799 ...

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 ...

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the source ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system ... giants," NASA said in a statement. HR 8799 (NIRCam Image ...

Astronomers have captured images of bright aurora borealis on Neptune for the first time, using a NASA telescope ... from the Sun during its 11-year solar cycle, Earth is seeing more intense ...