Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...
Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...
The universe is always moving. While we've found evidence of rogue black holes and planets, new research suggests that a passing star could be out there somewhere. Unfortunately, If it were to swing ...
Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously unknown world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19. The comet will pass within about 170 million miles of our planet and poses no danger. While not visible to the naked ...
Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.
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 ...