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 ...

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

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

The northern lights could mean lights out for the infrastructure we rely on.

Interstellar travel may be blocked by more than distance. Radiation, physics, energy, and time could force humanity to build ...

New James Webb observations are changing how scientists see the frozen edge of the solar system. Webb has mapped Uranus in ...

Road-tripping across the solar system sounds a lot more realistic when there’s somewhere to refuel along the way. According to a new NASA-backed study, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have ...

July offers stargazers exciting celestial events, from a meteor shower to the Summer Triangle and a viewing of the Andromeda ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy, the Milky ...

There's still enough time to complete that bucket list.

At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens.

Naked-eye planets. Mercury switches from the evening sky to the morning sky this July. Shortly after sunset on July 1, ...