NASA is launching two satellites, SPHEREx and PUNCH, on Friday, February 28, to create a panoramic map of the universe and monitor space weather.

What is the Solar System truly like? In this video, we take a closer look at real images captured by NASA and other space agencies, showcasing our planets and the vast beauty of the Milky Way ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface – in its closest-ever approach on ...

Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the spiral structure of the Milky Way.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327 ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...