In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 23, 2025, to study ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...