For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

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Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a recent study.

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will track invisible particles ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that's the darkest of all? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.