NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...
Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a discovery made on July 1 that’s led some astronomers to speculate that the ...
A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. What's more, the researchers are ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...