NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

The spacecraft will study the solar system's edge, magnetic fields in interplanetary space, and remnants of exploded stars.

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

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 ...

This invisible boundary is known as the heliosphere. It's the endpoint beyond which our Sun does not have any reach or power.

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 ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...

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 ...

The solar system still has only eight confirmed planets that are orbiting the sun. It recently had nine planets, but it all changed after NASA and other space agencies decided to demote Pluto to a ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.