NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions,' study suggests
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...
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Something Mysterious Swept Over Our Entire Solar System, Scientists Say
A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.
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NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
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Voyagers facing power crunch, NASA shuts key instruments from 15 billion miles away
NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...
Distant star explosions could have wiped out life on Earth twice
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...