Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...
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 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in ...
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.
New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...
An off-grid solar system is a self-sustaining power setup that operates independently from the national electricity grid.