Astronomers have made a startling discovery. Using data from the eRosita X-ray instrument, researchers say they’ve discovered ...
Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, ...
For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...
How is our solar system different from interstellar space, and what separates the two? Author Jim Bell explains in this clip from THE FARTHEST and in an excerpt from his 2015 book, THE ...
Finding a bubble of hot gas blown by the stellar wind from a young star gives researchers a peek at what our sun was like when it was young.
Scientists uncover interstellar tunnels linking our solar system to distant stars, revealing a dynamic cosmic architecture ...
The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...
Data sent back by the two Voyager spacecraft have shed new light on the structure of the Solar System. Forty-two years ... the shape of the vast magnetic bubble that surrounds the Sun.
They go beyond Pluto, some even making it out to the Oort Cloud, a vast bubble of tiny objects at the fringe of our solar system. Their speed and paths are what allow astronomers to determine ...
What Is a Magnetosphere? A magnetosphere is the region surrounding a planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. While ...