Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Voyager spacecrafts go beyond the solar system and garner several intriguing insights about the uncharted territory.

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

When Voyager 1 and 2 crossed the boundary of the heliosphere, many believed they would drift silently into a cold, empty ,voidinterstellar space. It was expected to be a lifeless region, too sparse ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

As one of the five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of the Sun and ...

According to the latest paper, the cold cloud compressed the heliosphere in such a way that it briefly placed Earth and the other planets in the solar system outside of the heliosphere’s influence.

Scheduled to launch in late 2025, IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects our solar system.

Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...

Today, she serves as the project scientist of a NASA mission to investigate the sun's particles and map their energy across the entire heliosphere, which is the region of space affected by the ...

The eight known planets in the solar system, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the Kuiper Belt—the band of celestial objects beyond Neptune that includes the planetoid Pluto—all ...