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 ...

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Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Researchers have finally determined the shape of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that protects our Solar System from galactic radiation. Unlike previous models, this zone, generated by solar wind ...

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 ...