"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

The stars may not be aligning on Friday night, but seven planets in our solar system just may be. For weeks, outer space enthusiasts have been gearing up for a planetary alignment, or "planetary ...

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...

Here is everything to know about this week's planet parade. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... grand parade showcasing all the solar system's major planets.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the naked eye, according to Space ... planets. The planets in the solar ...