As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations of the observatory. While the telescope ...

SPARROW, a steam-powered robotic concept, could one day take giant leaps over some of the most hazardous terrains known (and unknown) in the solar system. Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -– New Mexico scientists are working with NASA on a project to map out the boundary between the solar system and the rest of the galaxy. NASA as well as others in the science ...

Did you know that the National Air rand Space Museum has researchers that study the solar system? Planetary scientists Sharon Wilson Purdy, Mariah Baker, and Emily Martin from our Center for Earth and ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...