A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...

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

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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Discovery: On July 2, 2025, astronomers confirmed Comet 3I/ATLAS, marking only the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected passing through our Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and ...

The Philippines rises as a new solar superpower, lighting up to 5 million panels as Terra Solar builds the world’s largest ...

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