NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...
Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...
A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a discovery made on July 1 that’s led some astronomers to speculate that the ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19. The comet will pass within about 170 million miles of our planet and poses no danger. While not visible to the naked ...
Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.