Ever since Pluto was demoted from planet status, astronomers believe a real Planet Nine exists in the solar system ...
From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...
A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.
Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...
Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding ...
The NASA Juno spacecraft has once again amazed the world, capturing an extraordinary image of Jupiter’s atmosphere. This time ...
within the Local Hot Bubble Scientists have discovered a "cosmic tunnel" near our solar system, with details published in ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
From the archives of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this short film from 1977 describes the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft before they launched on their journey to Jupit ...
Technological advances such as the one discussed here are only furthering the potential for clean energy production.
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...