The boundary of the Solar System remains somewhat poorly understood. We know we are within it, in a region of space called ...

Humanity has already flung machines into interstellar space, but sending people is a different problem entirely. The physics ...

When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of touring the outer planets. No one seriously expected them to redraw the ...

NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the ...

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...

Only two spacecraft have ever truly escaped the solar system, slipping beyond the Sun’s protective bubble into interstellar space. Their measurements are now reshaping how I understand the heliosphere ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped distant worlds.

Across neuroscience, psychology and fringe physics, a provocative idea is gaining new language: that the human mind might be ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.