Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation ...
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. Simpson's paper, "How might a planet between Mars and ...
The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral ...
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...
The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...
The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.