NASA's New Horizons mission, which encountered Pluto in 2015 is now riding through the deepest depths of the Kuiper Belt, is encountering a cosmic dust storm that hints there may be more going on in ...

There have been many studies done to better understand how the heliosphere interacts with other elements and what its ...

In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets (plus whatever Pluto is at the moment) trailing the fiery orange sun like polite little ducklings in a row. In ...

World views and the solar system -- Earth-centered world views in classical Europe -- Non-European world views -- Earth-centered world views in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Sun-centered and ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

If you ever go hiking on an asteroid, you’ll want to pack one of Robert Gaskell’s maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is to our solar system’s frontier what Lewis and ...

The probe entered a region beyond the heliopause, where temperatures are incredibly high, and continued to function despite ...