A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

within the Local Hot Bubble Scientists have discovered a "cosmic tunnel" near our solar system, with details published in ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

A research institution here has developed the world’s first automated manufacturing equipment to create next-generation ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

The Johannesburg Planetarium has been transformed into the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, marking a new chapter for science in South Africa.