Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...

Tune in today (Jan. 16) to bid farewell to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, courtesy of a livestream from the Virtual Telescope ...

This test flight, conducted by the Ashburn, Virginia-based startup Overview Energy, marks a major victory in the quest for ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch three spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind mission to study the sun's influence throughout the solar system, from Earth's atmosphere to the edge of interstellar space. A ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

What can a newly discovered interstellar comet teach scientists about solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2025 hopes to ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like empty space and more like a furnace, where charged particles heat to tens of ...

The comet, discovered in July 2025, originated far beyond our Solar System and is thought to be around 7 billion years old - ...