At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a ...

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024. On April 8, 2024, a 115-mile-wide strip of North ...

James O'Donoghue went viral for the first time in December 2018. He was a planetary scientist for NASA at the time, but the federal government had temporarily shut down due to budget disputes in ...

At its current solar maximum, our Sun has been pretty busy of late, flinging parts of itself at Earth and raising concerns about effects on satellites and power grids while also gracing us with ...

J. Horner, S. R. Kane, J. P. Marshall, P. A. Dalba, T. R. Holt, J. Wood, H. E. Maynard-Casely, R. Wittenmyer, P. S. Lykawka, M. Hill, R. Salmeron, J. Bailey, T ...

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search for ...

Stellar rings: an infrared image of rings around a star that was taken by ALMA. (Courtesy: ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) The clear divide between the inner and outer solar system is the legacy of a ring ...

Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just one planetary system (the solar ...