In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
The theory gained traction as observations revealed a relative void of interstellar dust near our solar system. Challenges emerged in the 1990s when scientists discovered that solar wind ...
How is our solar system different from interstellar space, and what separates the two? Author Jim Bell explains in this clip from THE FARTHEST and in an excerpt from his 2015 book, THE ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...