NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

A hidden structure at the farthest reaches of our solar system is challenging long-held theories. Using advanced simulations, ...

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NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

Our solar system is surrounded by a giant invisible bubble called the heliosphere. This protective bubble is created by the solar wind, streams of charged particles flowing out from the Sun, and it ...

IBM and NASA are unveiling the most advanced open-source foundation model designed to understand high resolution solar observation data and predict how solar activity affects Earth and space-based ...

NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and physical traits. While harmless to Earth, the comet provides scientists a rare ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...