Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space and is now blowing through the solar system at extremely high speeds. It’s only the third ...

Nasa is set to launch its new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) on September 23, 2025, to explore the enigmatic boundary of the solar system known as the heliosphere. This giant ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...

It came from outer space. Interstellar space, to be precise. From somewhere beyond the influence of our sun, possibly from ...

3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 billion tons. The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A ...

In spring 2002, Chelsey Bryant Krug flew to Colorado in search of a job. She had just enrolled as a graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She found ...