The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

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

scientists used NASA's Pleiades supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort cloud based on the trajectories of comets as well as the gravitational forces within and beyond our solar system.

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Pairing an analytic model with the supercomputer simulation ... While Earth and the other planets in the solar system are kept in their orbit due to the sun’s gravity, the orbit of objects within the ...

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 that has long been a ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...