Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...

Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

For almost 15 years, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has been blasting through the cosmos on a journey to study the farthest reaches of our solar system. But now that it's gotten there, NASA has made a ...

KENNDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, USA, August 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- NASA's highly successful New Horizons mission, which was the first and only planned spacecraft ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

Liftoff is scheduled for 1:25 p.m. EDT on Monday (June 16). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. United Launch Alliance (ULA) is set ...

August 11, 2025, marked a milestone in space exploration for Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The launch of the 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch marks the completion of its ...

Discovering distant worlds -- Mercury : the iron planet -- Venus : the runaway greenhouse -- The moon : queen of the night -- Mars : the red planet -- Asteroids : vermin of the skies -- Jupiter : king ...