Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made an astonishing visit to Arrokoth, a remote Kuiper Belt object, uncovering vital clues ...

NASA Psyche mission scientists will need to rethink how they interpret magnetic data from asteroid 16 Psyche after an Oxford University study found that catastrophic collisions in the early solar ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system. But things might be a lot more complicated than we previously thought, according to a new study.

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Proposed Science Themes for NASA's Fifth New Frontiers Mission. Washington, DC: The National ...