"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

it could serve as a cosmic fingerprint of the Solar System’s passage through the wave. However, finding this evidence won’t be easy. “Looking back in time is hard—no matter if you’re doing it in space ...

Even if we don’t feel it, our little blue planet—and everything on it—is hurtling through space at incredible ... within the Solar System. But that’s not all: we are moving within the ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Nothing in our universe stands still: Earth orbits the sun, the sun circles the galaxy, and even galaxies are constantly on the move. So why is everything in space in motion? It all comes down to ...

Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our whole Solar System may have passed through this incredible structure. Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling through space. The dots moving across the right side of the animation show how quickly each object travels 150 ...

Once in space ... to travel through, under the force of gravity. Next, we take a spacewalk to mend the rocket, before returning home. On the way the children perform a ‘solar system’ movement ...