When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...

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

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

That now applies to the outer solar system planets,” said Benjamin Weiss, study author from MIT. Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, a dense cloud of gas and dust collapsed, forming a swirling disk that ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...