A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Rocket Lab released a new line of customizable solar arrays built to power satellites in any orbit with unmatched efficiency ...

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...

NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

They can come from other solar systems and be thrown into interstellar space by collisions or be slingshotted by a planet or star’s gravity. Credit: Western University Gregg, a PhD candidate in ...

Terry Griffin, a professor at Kansas State University, told Space.com that he agrees the Gannon storm began an important conversation on how solar storms ... satellite systems and improved ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

former Naval Research Laboratory Innovation Power Beaming and Space Solar Portfolio lead. “The sun is the closest thing we have in our solar system to an unlimited source of energy,” Jaffe said.