To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

The spacecraft had measured a surprisingly strong electron radiation belt during a flyby of Uranus, which had remained a ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s JUICE spacecraft show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves through the inner solar system, offering new details about its path, activity, and un ...

Space is very, very cold. The baseline temperature of outer space is 2.7 kelvins — minus 454.81 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 270.45 degrees Celsius — meaning it is barely above absolute zero, the ...