Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

We've been creating some fun projects here at Two Kids and a Coupon that is focused on what's up beyond the clouds and wanted ...

If waste disposal is a major environmental challenge across the world, rapid accumulation of junk in outer space is also a ...

During the planet formation process, smaller objects — including asteroids and comets — were drawn to the outer edges of the solar system. These became an immense cloud called the Oort cloud.

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...