NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...
Most of us go through life assuming Earth’s place in the universe is secure. We picture our planet as a blue marble, peacefully orbiting the Sun in a cosmic dance that’s guaranteed to go on for ...
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...
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 ...
Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...
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 ...
Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.
The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.