Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation has ...

In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets (plus whatever Pluto is at the moment) trailing the fiery orange sun like polite little ducklings in a row. In ...

Mars will stay in the spotlight through the 2030s thanks to a sample return mission. But in the 2040s, Uranus will take center stage, and Saturn’s moon Enceladus will steal the show in the 2050s. That ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of ...

The solar system still has only eight confirmed planets that are orbiting the sun. It recently had nine planets, but it all changed after NASA and other space agencies decided to demote Pluto to a ...

Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space. The sun keeps a tight rein on everything in the Solar System, but it isn’t always the ...