NASA's New Horizons found the solar wind slows as it nears interstellar space, helping improve models of the solar system's ...

A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into ...

A Victoria University scientist who has found the key to dating the very beginnings of our Solar System will have his work published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature today. Dr Joel Baker, ...

Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar ...

For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system. But things might be a lot ...

In one of the most exciting developments in astronomy in the 21st century, NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) today–and Northern Arizona University astronomers, planetary ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are using a solar wind forecasting method combined with analytic and numerical ...

Billions of years ago, what is now our Solar System was nothing more than a vast spinning disk of gas, rock, and dust. Researchers have now discovered that, in the midst of that primitive environment, ...

There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an “Earth-like planet,” dubbed Planet Nine, that’s hiding in plain ...

A solar flare erupts from the sun on June 20, 2013, seen at the left of the image. NASA / SDO Our solar system could be subject to a violent “superflare” explosion from our sun sooner rather than ...

New forecasts are helping scientists pinpoint one of the most elusive locations in space: the outer boundary of the Sun’s ...