Launched in 1997, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft has been traveling ever since, and it was around 167 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth. It was the first spacecraft to go beyond the heliosphere, ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

The Solar System, consisting of giant planets, millions of asteroids and a Sun, has a boundary. Yes, like all countries on Earth, the Solar System too has a region after which its dominion ends. This ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will be used by scientists to study the bubblelike structure in which our solar system exists. Known as the heliosphere, it is formed by the ...

The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...

NASA and ESA images show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS erupting with gas and dust as it nears Earth on 19 Dec 2025, offering ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...