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 ...
NASA's New Horizons found the solar wind slows as it nears interstellar space, helping improve models of the solar system's ...
Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...
A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into ...
Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...
New forecasts are helping scientists pinpoint one of the most elusive locations in space: the outer boundary of the Sun’s ...
What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...