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 SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

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 ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

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 ...