The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

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

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

Abstract: In response to the intelligent needs of the development of nuclear power technology in recent years, this article proposes an application exploration of a nuclear power plant secondary ...

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility ...

3I Atlas is a newly discovered interstellar comet traveling through our solar system at a record breaking speed of about 209,000 km/h, making it the fastest of its kind ever observed. Unlike comets ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object screaming into our solar system from far beyond. Now, as the BBC reports, new observations by the Gemini South ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...