Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...

The ongoing search for oceans in our solar system is taking us to Uranus. A new computer model, designed by researchers at ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

From the archives of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this short film from 1977 describes the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft before they launched on their journey to Jupit ...

multimillion-dollar space company making tech for NASA that allowed deep space probes, starting with the Cassini mission to ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...