A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Harvard researcher Avi Loeb says comet 3I/ATLAS weighs 33 billion tons and spans 3.1 miles, making it far larger than ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...

A new AI model from NYU Abu Dhabi predicts solar wind days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. By ...

This invisible boundary is known as the heliosphere. It's the endpoint beyond which our Sun does not have any reach or power.